Clinical Therapist and Yoga Teacher

Angie Young

LCSW, EMDR, RYT200
Therapy for ages 18+

As a trauma therapist, EMDR provider, and trained yoga teacher. I approach each person with empathy and openness to understand how we can create meaningful connection and healing together. My journey as a therapist includes work with complex trauma and sexual abuse in outpatient and intensive care settings, grief counseling through hospice work, and chronic illness/public health therapy while serving in the Peace Corps in Uganda. My last several years of clinical practice have focused on attachment wounds, abandonment, and shame in both private practice and substance abuse treatment settings.

As a therapist, I believe healing is possible through connection with your body, emotions, and thoughts. I want to gently bring the body into therapy and I seek to be a companion in the process of sifting through your lived experience to discover your authentic voice. Together, we will use somatic interventions and yoga, emotionally focused work, inner child work, and brain-based approaches like EMDR to reclaim the chapters of your life where difficult experiences stole your sense of who you are. I  work to nurture growth, healing, and you with overcoming loneliness.

I find it essential to create an atmosphere of bravery and acceptance in any therapeutic relationship. I utilize sex-positive counseling practices, am an ally for the LGBTQIA+ community in the therapy dynamic, and want to build understanding about how your experiences, relationships, and culture have impacted your life.

About Angie:

  • Loves reading fantasy or sci-fi books or watching Bones for the hundredth time

  • Stays grounded through gardening and connected to her body through tai chi

  • Has way too many blank journals that she is working on filling, and enjoys using tarot cards to deepen her self reflection

  • Somatic interventions are therapeutic techniques that focus on the body and its relationship with the mind and emotions. They aim to promote physical and psychological well-being by addressing bodily sensations, movement, and awareness.

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) is frequently used as an evidence-based psychotherapy, helping people heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts.

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that is designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories.

  • Yoga is a mind-body practice that focuses on your physical, emotional and mental health.

  • Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) addresses the mental health needs of people suffering from the destructive effects of early trauma.

Top Specialties:

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Grief

  • Anxiety

  • Childhood Trauma

  • Somatic and Body-Based Interventions

Areas of Expertise:

  • Borderline Personality (BPD)

  • Chronic Illness

  • Complex Trauma/Relational Trauma

  • Coping Skills

  • Depression

  • Dissociative Disorders (DID)

  • Dual Diagnosis

  • EMDR Therapy

  • Emotional Disturbance

  • Family Conflict

  • Infant Loss

  • Inner Child Work

  • LGBTQ+ Identity Support

  • Life Transitions

  • Peer Relationships

  • Personality Disorders

  • Relationship Issues

  • Religious Trauma

  • Self Esteem

  • Self-Harming

  • Sex-Positive, Kink Allied

  • Therapy for Sex Workers

  • Sexual Abuse

  • Spirituality

  • Stress

  • Substance Use

  • Therapy for other Therapists

  • Women's Issues

  • Yoga Therapy

I’m in network with:

Aetna

Anthem

BCBS PPO

Cigna / Evernorth

United Healthcare

Call (630) 940-6828 or email scheduling@paderatherapy.com to set up an appointment or schedule a 15-minute free phone consultation.

“ I believe healing is possible through connection with your body, emotions, and thoughts. I want to gently bring the body into therapy and I seek to be a companion in the process of sifting through your lived experience to discover your authentic voice.”

— Angie Young

Questions about insurance?

Give us a call or email scheduling@paderatherapy.com. We can often work with insurance companies if we are out-of-network. If we are an out-of-network provider or you do not have insurance, our rate is currently $135.00 for a 53 minute session. However, we also offer reduced rates in special circumstances. Finances should never be a deterrent for seeking help! We work with families to come up with a number that works for you.