About Ana
Ana Sikula is a licensed clinical social worker based in Illinois who supports people working through stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family challenges, grief, trauma and a wide range of life transitions.
Background and approach
She draws on a decade of clinical experience to tailor care to each person’s situation, emphasizing practical strategies alongside deeper emotional work. Ana is fluent in English and Spanish and integrates cultural sensitivity into her practice.
Ana blends evidence-based methods with a warm, client-centered stance, helping clients strengthen communication, clarify values, and build coping skills for issues such as parenting pressures, workplace stress, intimacy concerns, and neurodiversity-related challenges like ADHD.
Her training in therapies that include cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-focused work, acceptance and commitment strategies, and emotionally focused interventions allows her to match interventions to individual needs.
Outside of practice she is a partner and parent who values holistic wellbeing, community, and lifelong learning, and she uses that perspective to encourage pragmatic, sustainable changes that fit each person’s life.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and building psychological flexibility, helping people move toward meaningful goals even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings arise. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) emphasizes identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) attends to emotional experience and interpersonal patterns, which can be helpful for processing attachment and relationship-related concerns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ana will work with each client to assess needs, preferences, and goals and may combine elements from different methods so treatment aligns with what the client wants to achieve. This partnership helps ensure the chosen strategies feel relevant and workable in daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage in this work using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity across life changes, and access licensed professionals from home or other convenient locations while preserving the therapeutic focus and continuity of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish