About Banan
Banan Said is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois who focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, family dynamics, grief, and parenting.
Background and approach
She draws on six years of clinical experience to support people navigating attachment challenges, communication difficulties, feelings of guilt and shame, loneliness, and life purpose questions. Fluent in English and Arabic, she integrates attention to cultural and faith values when relevant and seeks to create a respectful, empathetic atmosphere for each person who comes for help.
Banan works with a range of issues including panic and post-traumatic stress, pregnancy and childbirth related concerns, social anxiety, and women’s issues. Her practice addresses deeper themes such as abandonment, control struggles, forgiveness, and midlife shifts while also offering help for practical family and relationship patterns.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and aims to help clients build self-love, clearer communication, and more satisfying relationships over time.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Many clients find benefit from evidence-based therapies that focus on how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors connect. Cognitive-based techniques help identify and reshape unhelpful thinking patterns that fuel anxiety, panic, and self-critical beliefs. These strategies aim to reduce symptoms and teach practical skills for managing worry and panic attacks.Attachment-informed work explores how early relationship patterns influence current bonds and communication, helping clients address abandonment fears, trust issues, and intimacy challenges. This kind of approach supports deeper understanding of relationship dynamics and builds healthier interaction habits.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process that unfolds across sessions. The therapist will work together with each client to assess goals, preferences, and responses to different techniques, adjusting the plan to find what best supports progress and wellbeing.
Online therapy offers flexible access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and receive timely support from licensed professionals regardless of travel constraints.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Arabic