About Ednina
Ednina Welters draws on a client-centered framework combined with evidence-based techniques to help people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, grief, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and other complex life challenges.
Background and approach
As an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 11 years of clinical experience, she blends empathy and practical intervention to support meaningful change in thinking, feeling, and behavior. Her practice integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and the Gottman Method alongside a person-centered stance that honors each client's goals and values.
This mix allows her to address emotional regulation, communication and commitment issues, trauma and abuse, and career or life transitions with both validation and skills-based strategies. She also works with concerns such as attachment and abandonment issues, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress, co-morbidity, and a range of personality-related difficulties.
Operating from Illinois and offering sessions in English, she provides flexible formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Prospective clients select the Start Therapy button, complete a brief matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability to begin the process.
Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Care
Ednina uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify personal values and build psychological flexibility, supporting work on anxiety, stress, and life transitions through mindful acceptance and committed action. She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be especially useful for depression, anxiety, and coping with addictive patterns. The Gottman Method is used when relationship dynamics are the focus, offering communication and conflict-management tools that strengthen connection and trust.Choosing the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist partners with each client to assess needs, preferences, and goals, then tailors interventions so the method fits the person rather than forcing a single model. This flexible style allows adjustments over time based on progress and feedback.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain consistent care while balancing work, family, or other commitments, and they allow licensed professionals to deliver structured therapy and skills practice across distances.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English