Vanessa Ford

Vanessa Ford, LCSW, CADC, is a Psychotherapist and Addictions Specialist with over two decades of experience. She is specializing in trauma healing, grief counseling, and addictions therapy and uses EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy to support clients in processing traumatic memories.

She served as a staff psychotherapist at the Midwest's largest LGBT center and established her full-time private practice on Chicago's north side in 2007. These roles inform her work with diverse clients facing complex trauma and substance use disorders.

Ford helps clients correct distorted thinking patterns and provides concrete tools for behavioral change to address anxiety, post-traumatic stress, panic attacks, grief, depression, and addiction recovery, with an emphasis on improving communication and relationships.