Dr. Tuwana Wingfield, LCSW

Dr. Tuwana Wingfield helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She offers calm, practical support for everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Her approach is steady and respectful, aimed at helping people find clearer direction and better daily coping. With 12 years of direct clinical practice and broader experience in social work and higher education, she draws on a range of methods to match what each person needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also leans on client-centered listening to make space for a person’s values and goals. Sessions focus on small, actionable steps that fit into real life. People often work on managing emotions, improving communication, or navigating big changes like grief, divorce, or career shifts. Dr. Wingfield also addresses issues such as parenting strain, caregiver stress, trauma and abuse, and concerns about self-worth. Her style is warm and interactive. She aims to treat people with dignity and to avoid labels that feel stigmatizing. The work is collaborative: clients and the therapist identify priorities and build practical plans together. Dr. Wingfield holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, and practices in Illinois. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules.

How therapy approaches adapt to online sessions

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's goals and values. Online sessions let the therapist reflect back what matters to you and help you set priorities in a conversational way that feels natural over video or chat.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. In an online session this often means practicing skills together, setting small homework tasks, and checking progress between meetings via messages or short calls.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build calm. These exercises can be guided during a video call or reinforced through brief text reminders and short audio exercises sent between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to try methods that fit their goals, lifestyle, and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls support face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging helps people share updates or coping steps between sessions. This range of formats makes it easier to maintain steady momentum without major schedule disruption.