Eve GunderKline
Compassionate guidance for family and life challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Eve
Eve GunderKline is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with ten years of counseling experience based in Illinois. She focuses on helping people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, and relationship concerns. Eve also works with issues related to family life and parenting, and she brings a steady, straightforward presence to conversations about hard moments.
Her sessions are grounded in listening first. She helps people identify patterns that get in the way - like control issues, codependency, or attachment wounds - and then finds practical steps forward.
Background and approach
For people coping with sexual assault, self-harm recovery, or post-traumatic stress, she integrates trauma-informed strategies into the work. Eve draws on Client-Centered Therapy to keep the client's perspective central. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, when trauma memories need processing.
Psychodynamic ideas help uncover long-standing patterns that show up in relationships and family situations. Her approach is collaborative and respectful. She aims to create a calm space where people can talk through grief, intimacy problems, jealousy, or life transitions without feeling judged.
Sessions emphasize what the person wants to change and clear, manageable next steps. Practical concerns are part of the conversation. Eve addresses work stress, compassion fatigue, career concerns, and self-esteem alongside relationship and parenting questions.
The goal is steady progress over time, tailored to each person's needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy is built around listening and following the client's lead. The therapist focuses on understanding each person's perspective and supports them in finding their own solutions, which helps with relationship issues, stress, and self esteem concerns.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a trauma-focused method used to reduce the intensity of distressing memories. It can be helpful for people processing sexual assault, post-traumatic stress, or other trauma-related symptoms by gently reprocessing painful memories.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide whether Client-Centered methods, EMDR, or psychodynamic ideas fit best based on goals and comfort. That decision is revisited as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around family, work, and daily life and to keep momentum between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these formats to provide consistent care and adapt methods like EMDR or talk-based work to the online setting.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
Next step
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