A place for women to unload the mental load.

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Hi, I’m Marissa - a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Perinatal Mental Health provider, and psychotherapist for women in Chicago and the Chicagoland suburbs. I am glad you are here.

I specialize in women’s mental health, providing compassionate and authentic therapy that works for you. Far too often, women carry significant stress and anxiety from pressure to do it all. This may show up as picturing the worst case scenario and feeling stuck in indecision, or having difficulty setting boundaries and prioritizing people pleasing over self-care.

In addition to providing therapy for anxiety, boundary setting, and values-based decision-making, my expertise also includes specific training and certification in perinatal mental health, encompassing pregnancy, postpartum, fertility, and loss. Though not talked about enough, these experiences in a woman’s life are often marked by anxiety, depression, rumination, intrusive thoughts, and grief, and the toll that this takes on self-worth is huge. Whether you are a pregnant mom, a new mom, a second or third time mom, or someone struggling to become a mom, you deserve a space that has been created for you. As I said above, I am so glad you are here.

Prioritizing women’s mental health is crucial for the individual (you!) and has critical impacts on those around, including those who are often so important to you (your spouse/partner, your children, your parents and siblings, and your friends).

By even wondering if therapy is right for you, you are showing yourself incredible compassion and support. Together, we can begin to unload the mental load so that your life - the roles you hold and the relationships you have (including the relationship with yourself) - holds the type of balance and meaning you deserve.

Welcome to Gray Therapy Group!

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SERVICES

Individual therapy supports clients in managing distressing symptoms through effective coping as well as understanding the triggers, patterns, and experiences that are relevant to long-term improved functioning. If your worry feels difficult to control, individual therapy can help.
When relationships are strained or stuck in challenging patterns it can feel hard to know what to do. Individual therapy can provide support in understanding relationship challenges, managing expectations, exploring relational loss, and setting healthy boundaries.
As a certified Perinatal Mental Health provider (PMH-C), Marissa Gray supports those navigating pregnancy, infertility, loss, and postpartum. If you are feeling anxious or depressed, or overwhelmed by your perinatal experience, individual therapy can help.
The shift to motherhood is a profound transition. It is full of change - in your relationships, with your body, and in your sense of self and identity within this role. Individual therapy can support moms who are struggling with the impact of these changes around them and within themselves.
Individual therapy offers a space to safely process and explore childhood experiences. Childhood is a formative, and often times as adult, making sense of family dynamics and childhood experiences provides a way to not only make meaning of your lived experiences, but to also make sense of how these perspectives in adulthood can help you live a meaningful and authentic life.
Individual therapy allows clients to explore and identity how to move away from making fear-based decisions and how to move into making values-based decisions. This practice of acceptance support clients in their ability to make decisions even when feeling uncomfortable and navigating uncertainty.
Gray Therapy Group invites you to put down your therapist "hat," and set aside time for yourself as the client. Therapist are people first, and taking time for your own work in therapy is an investment both personally and professionally, as well as a profound act of self-care.