About Ebony
Dr. Ebony Waller uses practical, structured approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety.
Background and approach
She combines goal-oriented work with strategies that build self-worth and resilience. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, and she adapts sessions to each person's needs.
She has seven years of clinical experience and practices as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, in Illinois. She helps people dealing with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, career challenges, motivation struggles, and compassion fatigue.
Communication problems, finding life purpose, and self-love are also common topics she addresses. In sessions she blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and narrative ideas.
That means clients often learn practical skills to change unhelpful thinking, notice and calm strong emotions, and reframe personal stories that get in the way of progress. She also uses solution-focused methods to set clear, short-term goals and track small wins.
Her approach emphasizes respect and sensitivity. Conversations are shaped around what matters to each person, and plans are adjusted as goals change.
She aims to help people feel more confident in everyday life and at work. Starting therapy with her begins with a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
People in Illinois and international clients who speak English can connect by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging.
How online approaches and therapies work together
Dr. Waller often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and manage strong emotions. CBT focuses on identifying thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower stress and increase emotional awareness.Narrative therapy is also part of her toolkit and helps people rewrite the stories they tell about themselves. That approach can be useful for improving self-esteem, clarifying life purpose, and addressing the impact of trauma by separating a person from the problem.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The aim is to find practical strategies that fit the client's life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit care into a busy schedule and to keep working on goals from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Life purpose
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English