Traci White
Compassionate support for family and life changes
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Traci
Traci White is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with five years of clinical experience. She has worked in community mental health programs, provided in-home counseling, supported people in long-term care settings, and practiced in personal care. Traci draws on that variety when meeting new clients.
She aims to create a straightforward, compassionate space for people who feel overwhelmed by stress, grief, trauma, or life transitions. Her approach is trauma-informed and grounded in plain conversation.
Background and approach
She focuses on building trust and safety first. From there she helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck and practices concrete skills to shift those patterns. Traci uses several evidence-based methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy.
She adapts techniques to match what each person needs and prefers. Sessions tend to be practical, with chances to try new ways of coping between meetings. She has supported people facing domestic violence, post-traumatic stress, adjustment challenges, ADHD, autism spectrum differences, obsessive-compulsive concerns, depression, and anxiety.
Traci also addresses family matters, parenting, intimacy-related issues, and grief. She listens for each person’s priorities and helps them move toward clearer day-to-day choices. Many clients appreciate her steady, respectful way of working.
She emphasizes small, doable steps and building confidence over time. If a parent or caregiver is reading, Traci aims to make visits feel helpful and manageable even on a busy day.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and life work
Traci draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy as key tools. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then take small steps toward what matters. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more stable connections in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Traci collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds so sessions match what is actually helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy schedules. These options let people connect from home, manage follow-up between meetings, and choose formats that feel most comfortable for them.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
Next step
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