Ana Sikula, LCSW
Illinois · 10 years in practice
Ana Sikula is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and parenting challenges.
License and registration
- LCSW, Illinois
- 149014407 · expires November 2027
- NPI
- 1043667504 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Ana
Ana Sikula is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. Ana draws on ten years of experience to meet people where they are and work toward clearer thinking and steadier emotions.
She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at underlying emotions that shape how people respond in relationships.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thinking, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to build values-guided action. Sessions focus on real moments - what feels hard now and what small shifts might help. Ana creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through difficult feelings.
She pays attention to attachment patterns and family history when those issues come up. She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, ADHD, caregiver stress, work pressure, and life transitions. Therapy with Ana can include practical tools for sleeping, managing overwhelm, and improving communication.
She discusses coping strategies and helps people try new behaviors between sessions. Her style is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Outside of work she is a partner and a mom of two boys, and she brings a broad life perspective to therapy.
Those personal interests shape how she thinks about self-care, community, and steady progress in everyday life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Ana lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Ana names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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Online support
How Ana’s Approaches Work Online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice the emotions that shape how they relate to others and to themselves, and then work through those feelings so reactions change in daily life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, concrete steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they influence current trust, communication, and closeness.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ana will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what methods feel most useful, and then adapt sessions so the approach fits those needs. The process is collaborative, with practical experiments and follow-up between sessions.
Online therapy lets people meet through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual connection, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins and quick problem-solving, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection or brief support between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and let therapy fit around work, caregiving, and day-to-day life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Ana commonly address?
Ana helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, parenting strain, grief, trauma and intimacy-related concerns.
What is Ana’s general therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and grounded. She blends emotion-focused work with practical strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How much experience does she have?
Ana has ten years of clinical experience working with a wide range of life and mental health concerns.
Where is Ana licensed and practicing?
She is an Illinois licensed clinical social worker with the credential LCSW and practices from Illinois.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How are sessions paid for?
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; cost varies with location and therapist availability.
How do I begin working with Ana?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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