Laila Ashkazari

Laila Ashkazari is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Illinois who provides care to teens, young adults, adults, and seniors. She offers secure video appointments and creates an individualized plan for each person, beginning with current concerns and setting realistic goals together. Her style is authentic, collaborative, and strength-based, drawing from multiple therapeutic approaches to match needs and preferences. Laila works with grief and loss, anxiety, depression, and panic. She also supports people managing obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress, and ADHD. Additional focus areas include gender identity, relationship violence, stalking, or harassment, as well as racial or cultural oppression and trauma. She assists with alcohol use and family caregiving stress. Clients can expect a steady, thoughtful pace that respects lived experience and aims to reduce patterns that keep them feeling stuck while building skills for daily life.