Affiliates
Affiliates are separate businesses and independent professionals who have partnered with Veduta Consulting, extending our services and availability. Each has passed our careful screening and review process, and we are pleased to present them to you here.
Rebecca Bunn, MA, LCPC
RB Counseling and Consulting
Rebecca Bunn is a licensed therapist and mindfulness instructor. She works with individual adult clients on issues of emotional regulation, stress management, chronic illness and pain, trauma, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Rebecca specializes in mindfulness-based interventions, including:Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (RO-DBT)
For an appointment or further information, contact Rebecca Bunn at:
E-Mail: rebecca@rbcounselingandconsulting.com
Nellie McCarthy,
LCPC, MA, MBA
Nellie McCarthy is a licensed clinical professional counselor. Nellie specializes in working with adults, couples and older adults going through relational changes and stress as well as grief and loss. She helps clients facing career challenges and supports clients managing care of older family members. Nellie has experience in many business endeavors. Her MBA in entrepreneurship [from DePaul University in 1998] enhances her keen awareness of and ability to connect with working professional clients.
For an appointment or further information, contact Nellie McCarthy at: nellie@nuthinkcounseling.com
Nerissa Tucker,
MHA, MA, LCPC
Collette Counseling and Consulting
Nerissa Tucker is a licensed professional counselor specializing in couples and relationship counseling. She is a Level II Gottman-trained therapist and a Premarital Counselor certified through Prepare-Enrich. Nerissa works with adults, adolescents, couples, and families.
For an appointment or further information, contact Nerissa Tucker at:
Website: collettecounseling.com
Phone: 312.685.1796
Pamela Smith,
MA, NCC, LCPC
Trace Counseling and Wellness
Pamela Smith is a clinical counselor, career coach and consultant at Trace Counseling and Wellness. She specializes in multicultural family counseling and executive business coaching. She is certified in EMDR, a first-line treatment for PTSD, as well as Anger Management (NAMA) and trained in perinatal therapy (PSI). Pamela works with adults, couples, and families.
For an appointment or further information, contact Pamela Smith at:
pamela@tracecounselingandwellness.com
Cia Souleles,
MSCP, MSCC, LCPC
Cia Souleles is a professional clinical counselor at Veduta Consulting.
Email: Counseling@souleles.com
Jenny Z. Lake,
LPC, MA, MFA
Jenny Lake is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) specializing in career counseling for adults navigating career change, job searches, burnout, workplace trauma, and difficult career decisions. Drawing on 15 years of experience in higher education, she has experience supporting career changers, college students and recent graduates, helping professionals, and first-generation college students curious about a master’s degree. Jenny combines practical career guidance—including support with résumés, cover letters, interviewing, and graduate school—with counseling for the emotional challenges of work and career, helping clients navigate uncertainty, understand the systems shaping their experiences, and build greater self-trust along the way.
Jenny offers virtual sessions for clients living in Illinois. For a consultation or more information, contact Jenny at:
Website: sohailcounseling.com/jenny-lake
E-Mail: jenny@sohailcounseling.com
Donna Gluck, LCPC
DG Counseling, Inc.
“The power to be healed. The strength is in you.”
Dr. Gluck specializes in individual and couples counseling, using a solution-focused and client-centered therapeutic approach.
For an appointment or further information, contact Dr. Gluck at:
Website: dgcounselinginc.com
Phone: (630) 353-0697
Joan L. Fefferman MS MS LCPC CADC NCC
JF Counseling Services, PLLC
Explore the difference with someone who has experience in solving problems!
Joan Fefferman is a Licensed Clinical Therapist and Addictions Counselor that specializes in individual, couples and family counseling. She is the sole practitioner of her practice in a confidential, calm, private office in downtown Wheaton, IL. She works face to face and also over the computer with Telehealth.
Joan is exploring T-counseling which means combining her previous life in STEM, as an educator at the University of Chicago and her counseling profession. She strives to work with clients that experience work issues, educational issues, substance use issues, relationship and family issues, anxiety, depression, grief and mood disorders using education and psychological tools (CBT, DBT, ACT, and many humanistic approaches) that present a clear logical framework for healing.
For an appointment or further information, contact Joan Fefferman at:
(630) 868-3920
Or email: joan@jf-counseling.com
Jessica Dyrek, LCPC, CADC
Counseling and Consulting
Jessica Dyrek is a professional clinical counselor, licensed in Illinois (LCPC). She specializes in individual therapy for adolescents, adults, and those in between, helping with issues like life changes, stress, anxiety, and depression. She has specific experience treating women with ADHD and has helped many clients with more general needs for self-exploration and personal growth. Jessica is also Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC). She has extensive training and experience in assisting family members and loved ones of people suffering from addiction and personality disorders.
Jessica sees clients in person at her office in Hinsdale, Illinois, and offers appointments online.
For an appointment or further information, contact Jessica Dyrek at:
Website: jessicadyrek.com
E-Mail: jessica@jessicadyrek.com
Phone: 630-272-4966
Deanna Chrones,
MA, LCPC, CH
Deanna Chrones is a licensed clinical counselor, consultant, and certified hypnotherapist at Veduta Consulting. She comes to Veduta with additional experience in organizational development and marketing. Deanna is certified in EMDR--eye movement desensitization and reprocessing--a first-line treatment for PTSD. Deanna has developed a new, eye-movement-based treatment for traumatic, depressive, and anxiety disorders; her new treatment is now under study at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. As a therapist, she brings creative insights and cutting-edge techniques to her warm and inviting presence. Deanna works with adults, adolescents, and children, and she specializes in treating trauma, depression, and anxiety.
You can contact Deanna at: https://chronescounseling.com/
Jessica Backus
MS, LPC
jessicathomasphd@gmail.com
Jessica Backus is a Licensed Professional Counselor with extensive experience in clinical mental health counseling, crisis intervention, supervision, consultation, program development and analysis, and addiction treatment. Since 2018, she has worked with diverse populations across various settings, helping clients navigate mental health challenges, overcome trauma, and develop effective coping strategies. She is committed to providing compassionate, evidence-based care tailored to each client's unique needs and circumstances.
Dr. Tanqueray Hart
SPHR, MBA, PhD
thart@vedutaconsulting.com
Dr. Tanqueray Hart specializes in helping clients with work-related stress and trauma. Her unique insight into the emotional and professional needs of employees of corporate and other large organizations is a product more than ten tears of personal experience and formal research in the corporate world. Dr. Hart helps her clients overcome trauma, recover from workplace exhaustion and avoid burnout. She creates a safe counseling environment where clients can feel secure, shed their defenses, and share their stories.
Tanqueray brings her consulting expertise to Veduta, with an emphasis on talent and performance management strategy for organizations. Her goal is to educate and empower the next generation of organizational leadership.