Life Counseling Institute

Life Counseling Institute is a mental health counseling practice in Burr Ridge, Illinois, serving clients from its office at 535 Plainfield Rd Suite H. The practice offers individual counseling for adults, marriage and couples therapy, premarital counseling, teen counseling, child therapy, and family therapy, along with telehealth sessions conducted over Google Meet. Its counselors work with anxiety, OCD, depression, relationship and communication struggles, parenting stress, life transitions such as divorce, job loss, career change and illness, and children's behavior concerns. The practice holds a rating of 4.40 based on 13 reviews.

Life Counseling Institute is a worker-owned cooperative, with the practice 100 percent employee owned. Therapists can become co-owners, and some clinicians already hold ownership while others have a path to it as they grow with the practice. Decisions are made collectively by the clinicians who work there rather than by a sole owner or an outside investor. The practice is a member of 1% for the Planet, donating 1 percent of gross revenues to environmental and climate causes. Its stated values include equality, consensus, honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others.

Counseling services include exposure and response prevention (ERP) for OCD, a five-session premarital counseling program covering topics such as children, sex, money, personality differences and lifestyle, and a three-session behavior management training program for parents. Child therapy addresses anxiety, depression, OCD and behavior challenges, and play therapy and child-parent relationship training are available online. The practice also offers online couples counseling and maintains confidentiality standards under which sessions cannot be recorded. Appointments can be arranged by phone, text or an online form.

The office sits on Plainfield Road, about a tenth of a mile from the road itself, with Willow Pond roughly two-tenths of a mile away and its pier about three-tenths of a mile from the practice. Willow Pond Park is about three-tenths of a mile away, the Willowbrook Post Office Annex about four-tenths of a mile, and Waterford Park about half a mile.

Life Counseling Institute has built a solid reputation among the clients it has served. For individuals, couples and families in Burr Ridge navigating anxiety, relationship strain or a child's behavior changes, the practice pairs evidence-based methods with a structure in which the clinicians themselves own and shape the work.