SOMA COUNSELING CENTER
Healing Beyond Words.
Reconnect with Your Body.
Rediscover Yourself.
At Soma Counseling Center, we believe healing goes beyond understanding your thoughts or managing symptoms. Our integrative, trauma-informed approach honors the connection between mind and body, helping you explore deeply rooted patterns, reconnect with your inner resources, and create meaningful change in how you experience yourself, your relationships, and the world around you.
THE SOMA APPROACH
Because Healing Involves the Whole You.
Our thoughts, emotions, bodies, and relationships are connected. Understanding where a pattern comes from matters, but insight alone doesn't always change how we feel or react.
That's why we combine evidence-based psychotherapy with somatic approaches. Therapy works with what you think and with what your body holds, at a pace that feels safe for you.
Healing begins with understanding, deepens through connection, and unfolds through the integration of mind and body.
HOW WE CAN HELP
Support for Every Step of Your Journey.
Whether you are working through something painful from the past or want a closer relationship, care is shaped around your needs, goals, and pace.
OUR VALUES
A Thoughtful, Whole-Person Approach to Healing.
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Compassionate Connection
A relationship built on trust, collaboration, and respect, where you feel seen and heard without judgment.
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Mind-Body Integration
Emotions and the body are connected. We pay attention to both, so healing reaches more than the mind.
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Meaningful, Lasting Growth
More than managing the next crisis: self-awareness, flexibility, and change that lasts in everyday life.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND SOMA
Healing Begins with Connection.
Finding the right therapist is an important part of the healing process. At Soma Counseling Center, our clinicians bring diverse experiences, specialties, and therapeutic approaches, united by a shared commitment to compassionate, personalized, and trauma-informed care.
Camila Richmond, LCSW
Founder · Sessions in English and Portuguese
Daesy Ruiz, MSW, LSW
Therapist · Sessions in English and Spanish
FLEXIBLE AND PRIVATE
Therapy That Fits Into Your Life.
Secure video sessions for clients anywhere in Illinois, from a private place where you feel comfortable. The same personal connection and quality of care, with more flexibility in your week.
Aetna · Anthem · BlueCross BlueShield · Medicaid · Optum · Oxford · UnitedHealthcare · Out‑of‑network
