Serving Schaumburg, Illinois
Eating Disorder Recovery in Schaumburg, Illinois
Licensed Illinois therapists delivering eating disorder recovery by secure video — for Schaumburg residents, on a schedule that fits your life.
- State Licensed
- 50+ Years Combined Experience
- Specialized Training
- 100% Telehealth

Compassionate Eating Disorder Recovery in Schaumburg
Recovery from an eating disorder is a journey of reclaiming your relationship with food, your body, and yourself. Therapy supports Schaumburg residents through every step with compassion and expertise.
Mental health is health. In a city the size of Schaumburg — home to roughly 78,000 people — countless neighbors quietly wrestle with the same things you do. Eating Disorder Recovery is how many of them are finally turning the corner.
Whether you have been searching for eating disorder therapy, post eating disorder therapy, or eating disorder counseling in Schaumburg, you are in the right place — it is all part of the eating disorder recovery care we provide to Illinois residents.
So what does getting help actually involve?
Why This Approach Works for Schaumburg
Here is what Schaumburg residents gain when they start eating disorder recovery with us:
Licensed experts with 25+ years of experience each
Illinois-licensed experts serving the Chicagoland area and beyond.
Zero judgment, 100% acceptance
Bring your mess. Your secrets. Your shame. This is a space where you can be fully human without fear of rejection.
What happens in therapy stays in therapy
HIPAA-compliant, encrypted, and completely confidential. Your private life stays private.
Your schedule, respected
Early morning. Lunch break. After the kids are asleep. We offer flexible hours because life doesn't pause for therapy.
Here is why that matters for you.
The Standard of Care You Deserve
There is no substitute for experience. The therapists behind Empower You Experts have spent years helping people through exactly what you are facing, and they bring that depth to every eating disorder recovery session.
We measure success the way you do: by how you feel and function in your daily life. Your clinician revisits your goals throughout care to make sure the work is genuinely moving the needle.
That brings us to the part most people wonder about.
Getting Started With Eating Disorder Recovery in Schaumburg
Confidentiality is built in from the start. Sessions run on encrypted, HIPAA-compliant software, and what you share stays between you and your Illinois-licensed therapist, exactly as it should.
Every session happens over secure, HIPAA-compliant video. You log in from wherever you feel safe — your living room, your parked car, a quiet corner of the house — and your therapist meets you there. No waiting rooms, no commute across Schaumburg.
That is exactly where eating disorder recovery comes in.
When It Feels Like Too Much
Before anything changes, it helps to name what you are carrying. For many Schaumburg residents, it sounds something like this:
Food has become the enemy?
Every meal is a negotiation. Every mirror is a battlefield. What started as "healthy habits" has consumed your lifeΓÇöand you want out.
Here's what that looks like in practice.
From Schaumburg to Every Corner of Cook County
Our Illinois clinicians understand the rhythm of life here. Serving all Schaumburg residents Serving the Schaumburg community with professional telehealth therapy.
No matter which part of Schaumburg you call home, the same standard of care follows you.
That brings us to the part most people wonder about.
Why Schaumburg residents Are Choosing Telehealth
For parents, caregivers, shift workers, and anyone short on time, online eating disorder recovery is often the only version of therapy that actually fits. That accessibility is exactly why so many Schaumburg residents choose it.
In-office visits ask you to rearrange your life around an appointment. Telehealth eating disorder recovery does the opposite — it fits into the life you already have. The therapeutic relationship is just as real; only the commute disappears.
So what does getting help actually involve?
Your First Session Starts Here
You have read this far for a reason. Let that be the moment things shift — schedule eating disorder recovery with a licensed Illinois clinician and begin from wherever you are in Cook County.
Your Licensed Illinois Therapists
Dr. Lisa Lavella, PsyD, BC-TMH
Founder & CEO, Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist with 25+ years of experience in individual and couples therapy

Christina Liakopoulos, LCSW, BC-TMH
Director, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in therapy and life coaching
100% Online
Secure video sessions from anywhere in Schaumburg.
Flexible Hours
Evening and weekend appointments available.
Licensed in IL
Illinois-licensed clinicians, HIPAA-compliant care.
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