Nurturing Relationships | Counseling & Therapy In Evanston, Il
Helping you nurture yourself, your connections, and your community
We offer integrative mental health therapy services for adults, teens, children, and couples throughout Evanston and greater Chicago regions.
Our work is grounded in systemic change, integrative therapy, and a deep investment in community.
We’re a private mental health practice of couple and family therapists dedicated to nurturing children, teens, couples, families, and individuals in their personal and relational growth.
Understanding that healing happens individually and through relationships, we provide a supportive and compassionate space for you to explore challenges, strengthen connections, and build healthier patterns.
Nurturing Relationships’ therapists walk alongside you with empathy, insight, evidence-based care, and humanness.
Explore Our Therapy Services
Child and Teen Therapy and Counseling
For youth struggling to process emotion, experiencing worries or anxiety, impacted by a family life transition, processing trauma or grief, or needing a strengthened family connection.
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Couples therapy and counseling
For couples wanting to feel more connected, improving communication, understanding expectations and boundaries, building trust, and finding confidence in navigating life transitions.
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Individual therapy and counseling
For support with relational difficulties, processing trauma or grief, navigating anxiety, understanding familiar patterns, dealing with unrealistic self-expectations, and finding fulfillment in life.
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Our Approach
How we work at Nurturing Relationships
Before we challenge patterns or explore change, we first seek to understand what you’re experiencing in the context of your life.
We honor your values, culture, and background. We do not assume or judge anything about your circumstances. We offer compassion and want you to feel seen, heard, and understood – especially in difficult moments.
Understanding why things happen helps us provide empathy for ourselves, navigate the moment, and live with intentionality.
As we start to notice your constraints, we’ll support you in finding ways to be seen and heard. And we’ll give you the resources and connections to make it through. Whether it’s medical or school support, yoga, meditation, nutrition, basic needs – or other avenues for your healing – we’ll tend to you as a whole person, within the systems that surround you.
You can view our list of referrals here.
We meet you where you are
Our services are flexible to meet your needs here in Evanston and in the surrounding areas. We’re intentional about removing as many constraints as possible for you to receive the care you need, however you need it.
Nurturing Relationships offers
In-Person Counseling Services
Provided on-site in our naturally bright facility in Evanston, IL.
Please note that it is located on the second floor of our building. If you are unable to walk a flight of stairs, we can provide therapy virtually or in the nearby park.
Walk and Talk Counseling Services
We like to provide opportunities for you to get connected with nature and with your body. During your session time, you can meet your therapist at the Evanston office and spend time walking around the block, sitting in the park, or a mix of both.
If you are interested in this approach, you will be asked to sign an additional consent form.
Virtual Counseling Services
Virtual therapy sessions are held through our HIPAA-compliant electronic health record system. You will receive a video link via email before your scheduled session. Simply log in to begin.
Hybrid Counseling Services
If needed, we can always begin your therapy virtually or in person and shift in later sessions. This is offered case-by-case and can be discussed specifically with your therapist.
Private Workshops For Couples
For when you need the right opportunity to begin difficult (but needed) conversations
On The Journal
Some recent reflections from our founder Katelyn Easter, LMFT
How do I help my child when they are worrying?
Worries don’t just live in the mind. They can show up in the body, especially for kids who may feel their anxiety before they can name it.
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When should I go to couples therapy?
All of our relationships are impacted by the context in which we live. Nurturing Relationships will help you better understand yours through a systemic and contextual lens.
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Understanding who you really are.
We’re all made up of many “parts,” and understanding them can help us respond with more self-compassion, emotional regulation, and clarity in our relationships.
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How to get started with us
Interested in working together? Here's how our integrative therapy services works at Nurturing Relationships.
Connect
Book a free, no-pressure consultation to get a feel for how we work, meet your potential therapist, and ask any questions. It’s a chance to see if we’re the right fit for your goals.
Discover
We take time to understand you as a whole person, within the context of your relationships, history, and hopes. This helps us co-create a treatment plan that feels aligned and sustainable.
Understand
Learn to recognize and respond to the factors within and outside of your control. Practice the psychoeducation tools available to you to use them with clarity, confidence, and care.
Collaborate
You’re never doing this work alone. Your therapist will guide you through the process with transparency, responsiveness, and ongoing support as your goals grow and evolve.
Nurturing Relationships walks with you toward connection with yourself, others, and community.
Take the first step by booking an introductory appointment and filling out a brief questionnaire to help us understand your needs. We’re here and ready when you are.
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