Hilary Kohs is the owner and founder of Life Compass Behavioral Health and Wellness. Her vision for Life Compass BHW is to provide a safe, non-judgmental, client-centered place for people to work towards healthier mental health and improved connections in their life. Her approach has been steady over the years; person-centered, working collaboratively with clients in order to enable change. She provides a safe, non-judgmental environment where clients can gain insight, explore desired change, and achieve their own individual treatment goals.
She has been a mental health therapist for over 20 years. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Illinois State University and her Master’s degree in Social Work from University of Illinois at Chicago, Jane Addams College of Social Work, with a focus on family and mental health. Working with veterans for over half her career has enabled her to specialize in trauma, offering evidence-based treatments such as cognitive processing therapy, P.E., and CBT. With her years of experience, she also helps with depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorder, anger management, work and/or relationship stress. She works with clients to process trauma, grief, divorce, and other issues. She also helps clients decrease symptoms and improve relationships by learning healthier coping and/or communication skills. She currently works with adults only, accepts insurance or private pay.
Amy Runge is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a Certified Perinatal Mental Health Provider. She has expertise in working with women’s issues, anxiety, depression, chronic illness, parenting support and life-transitions. She graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a degree in Pastoral Counseling and went on to private practice focusing on young children’s mental health and women’s issues.
In 2016, Amy became a Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) survivor and learned firsthand just how difficult the journey to parenthood could be. This is when she shifted her focus to Perinatal Mental Health.
Perinatal means the period “all around” birth, the period of time all throughout pregnancy as well as the baby’s first year (in the past it was referred to as “Postpartum”).
When choosing to become a parent, the process can be harder than expected and transitioning into this new role can be overwhelming and at times traumatic. This is where counseling can be helpful. Amy believes that therapy, like people, is unique. She approaches each client individually and believes that it is her role as a therapist to follow at their pace in the healing process. The therapeutic space that Amy creates is free from judgement, she wants for you, her client, to feel safe to explore ways to work towards the goals, values and wants, you have, together.