Empower Women Counseling

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Empower Women Counseling

A women focused trauma and attachment therapy practice that specializes in ptsd and women’s issues.

08/06/2025

Join us as we step into fall 🍁 The season that invites us to slow down and gather the gifts we’ve grown this year. Come honor what’s bloomed in your life. Leigh Heckman will be leading this exciting workshop!

07/20/2025

This past Saturday, I stepped beyond my comfort zone to co-host my very first Inner Child Retreat — and what unfolded was nothing short of transformative. The love and intention poured into this space was met with deep connection, healing, and a sacred sense of community among women.

I had the honor of guiding an IFS parts mapping practice, where we explored the tender terrain of our inner child and the protectors who’ve carried us through. We also touched into the body, learning somatic tools like havening — a powerful way to soothe the nervous system and return to a place of safety within. It would not be complete without my new obsession and passion - somatic therapy in its truest form - yoga!

Endless gratitude to Kris Cain, Ely Garcia, and our surprise guest Amanda Digweed CYT for helping bring this vision to life. What a day to remember. 🌿✨

07/09/2025

Empower Women Counseling is growing again!!! ✨✨✨✨

I am looking to add a third trauma therapist to our team! If you know of any fabulous hard working trauma informed therapists with a passion for supporting women in deep inner child healing while building balance and community - please send them my way! That is my jam. 💫⭐️✨

06/17/2025

We are so excited to partner with a functional medicine practice in Beverly! EWC is now offering Chronic Illness support workshops starting July 26th. If you or anyone you know is interested please pass this along. The support group will be led by Sarah Forde with an emphasis on somatic practices to regulate nervous system while supporting clients lived experience of chronic health struggles.

04/05/2025

Keep your tiny hands off my body my mind my therapy! Ashley and Leigh protested today in Daley Plaza!!!

03/05/2025

Thank you Photography by Cheryl Marie for the final touches on EWC photo shoot. I couldn’t love them more!!! So proud of my amazing team of women healers!!!!

02/28/2025

For the first time, I had professional photos taken of my private practice—a moment that felt both surreal and powerful. As I sat with them, taking in their beauty, I allowed myself to pause. These images were more than just photographs; they captured something deeper—the strength, the purpose, the journey that had brought me here. A fullness swelled within me, a quiet recognition of how far I had come.

After the birth of my son and the unraveling of my marriage, Empower Women Counseling was born. It wasn’t just a therapy practice; it was a fire ignited deep within my soul. Motherhood awakened something profound, yet alongside that love burned a deep rage—rage at the patriarchal expectations that both subjugate and suffocate women; leaving them without support or community, while shaming and enslaving them. I knew that if I wanted to change the world around me, I first had to change something within myself—down to the very core of my being.

So, I committed to healing my inner child. To facing the darkest, most wounded and disassociated parts of my deeply traumatic childhood. And as I did, the fog began to lift. Clarity and passion took its place. I knew I wasn’t meant to do this work alone. With the unwavering support of my partner, alongside the steady anchor of my own inner knowing, I stepped through fear and hired my first therapist—someone who shared my vision, who believed in both healing and being healed. One year later, I’ve welcomed a second.

Empower Women Counseling is a space built by and for women—a feminist-rooted therapy practice specializing in complex PTSD and developmental trauma. We use the most advanced trauma therapies—attachment focused EMDR, somatic work, and IFS/parts—to help women reclaim themselves, and realize they were never broken to begin with.

In a country on fire, with a president who is waging a war on women and the most vulnerable- I couldn’t be more proud to own a business designed for women - that stands for healing, for empowerment, for breaking the cycles that were never meant to define us. This practice is my revolution. And we are just getting started.

Photo by Photography by Cheryl Marie

01/30/2025

We are so excited to announce that Sarah Forde LPC was offered a full sholarship to Embody Lab’s Somatic EMDR training program in February 2025! Very soon EWC will have another EMDR trained therapist on staff with an emphasis on somatic work to help our clients heal. Congratulations Sarah! We are so excited for you!

Address

10540 S Western Avenue Suite 208
Chicago, IL
60643

Website

http://www.empowerwomencounselingil.com/

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