About Dr. Sivesind:

Dr. Sivesind received her Master’s and PsyD degrees in Clinical Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. She has worked with children, adolescents, college students and adults in a variety of settings including the Cook County court system, a Chicago college counseling center, a residential facility for formerly homeless veterans, a Veterans Affairs hospital and private practice.

Kayla practices in an integrative fashion, combining aspects of psychodynamic, relational, cognitive-behavioral and existential perspectives. She views therapy as a collaborative process and works with her clients to help create and maintain a safe space to explore and interact with one’s thoughts and feelings. She seeks to help her clients live fully and authentically and sees therapy as an opportunity to learn new ways of walking in the world that bring happiness and fulfillment. Kayla utilizes insight-oriented and present-focused techniques to help her clients work on long-term, as well as more immediate, relief of their symptoms.

While Kayla helps clients with many psychological and behavioral difficulties, including depression and anxiety, she specializes in working with grief and loss, guilt and shame, anger and trauma, including relational/developmental trauma, combat and military sexual trauma.