Life Transitions Counseling,PLLC

Life Transitions Counseling,PLLC Debra Alper is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Chicago specializing in relational therapy and divorce recovery.

Life Transitions Counseling offers supportive insight oriented therapy for individuals and couples navigating complex relationships
• Relationship trauma & Emotional Abuse
• Self Esteem and disconnect issues
• Divorce and divorce recovery. She has worked extensively since 1999 with individual clients striving to experience deeper, more meaningful relationships, couples in the midst of marital cri

sis around infidelity and unhappy, lonely relationships, and clients struggling to get through the emotional, and life changing hurdles of pre and post-divorce. Debra Alper received her undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her Masters in Social Work from Loyola University, Chicago. She has received specialized training in Gottman Marital Therapy, Harville Hendrix Imago Therapy, and she participated in a yearlong weekly seminar from the University of Chicago on Psychodynamic Theory. Debra has volunteered with various literacy organizations around Chicago, most recently working with Sit Stay Read, combining her passion for reading, children and dogs. Debra resides in Chicago living happily 3 blocks away from her only daughter, and sharing her home with her beloved rescue Maltese Lilly. When Debra is not working, or dog walking, you can find her at her favorite yoga class, taking a long walk on the lakefront, traveling (preferably in Italy) or cooking.

06/03/2026

Learning that love had conditions wasn’t your fault. Spending years meeting those conditions without noticing — that’s what these relationships exploit.

06/01/2026

This wasn’t bad judgment. It was two attachment wounds finding each other in the dark and mistaking it for love.

05/31/2026

The woman you used to be didn’t leave. You just stopped looking for her. That changes today.

05/29/2026

You wouldn’t have recognized that version of yourself two years ago. That’s not a character flaw. That’s evidence of what you survived.

05/28/2026
05/28/2026

Intensity isn’t intimacy. The sooner you know the difference, the sooner you stop mistaking one for the other.

05/26/2026

The beginning felt real because it was. That’s what makes this so hard to explain to anyone who wasn’t there.

I wrote this article for Divorced Girl Smiling. Let me know if it speaks to you.
05/22/2026

I wrote this article for Divorced Girl Smiling. Let me know if it speaks to you.

Debra Alper, LCSW and divorce recovery and relationship therapist addresses addictive love and offers insight on why you can't leave.

05/22/2026

You stopped laughing the way you used to. Not all at once. Just quietly, over time, without noticing.

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Chicago, IL
60610

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 1pm - 7pm
Thursday 12pm - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

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+17739317220

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