ONLINE THERAPY IN ILLINOIS FOR THE CARETAKING WOMAN
You’re carrying it for everyone else. Let me carry it for you.
For the woman who is everything for everyone.
You show up for everyone. Your kids. Your clients. Your patients. Your team. You are the one they call. You are the one who figures it out. You are the one who holds it together, even when you are quietly falling apart.
The Vessel Therapy is a space where you don't have to hold it together. Where someone finally holds space for you.
What You're Carrying
You don't lack strength. You lack a space where you're allowed to put it down.
Strength isn't something you choose; it's something you became. Because someone had to, and it was you. You didn't know there was another way. All you knew was: if I don't hold this together, who will?
But here's what I know from the women I've worked with and sat across from: the hardest part isn't the exhaustion. It's the loneliness of carrying it without a single person who truly understands what you're holding.
That changes here.
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
Two ways to find yourself.
ONE-ON-ONE THERAPY
Private, online therapy for anxiety, burnout, and the particular weight of being the woman everyone else leans on for adult women in Illinois.
Individual Therapy
GROUP THERAPY
The Sanctuary
A 10-week, professionally facilitated support group for women who are ready to stop carrying it alone. Limited to 8 women per session. Offered in-person in Homewood, IL and virtually.
ABOUT MARISSA
I built this practice for the woman I used to be.
I'm Marissa Goldman, LCSW, a licensed clinical social worker and the founder of The Vessel Therapy. I specialize in anxiety and burnout for women who give everything to everyone, and I created The Sanctuary because I know from my own experience what it costs to carry this alone.
I built this practice for the woman who prides herself on caring for others but secretly is crying for help because she has never quite learned how to let someone care for her.
You've been the strong one long enough.
You don't have to have it all figured out to reach out. You just have to be tired of carrying it alone.