Professional counseling services in Mokena, IL

Troy specializes in couples and individual counseling, offering over 20 years of experience in both clinical and faith-based environments.

He is passionate about helping couples strengthen or restore their relationships, and supports individuals navigating life transitions, anxiety, depression, and emotional dysregulation.

Troy's holistic approach integrates emotional, physical, relational, mental, and spiritual wellbeing—creating a safe, collaborative space to process challenges and discover meaningful solutions.

In couples counseling and marriage counseling, Troy works with partners who want to improve communication, rebuild trust, navigate conflict, and better understand one another. He also provides individual therapy for clients seeking support with stress, emotional overwhelm, personal growth, and the challenges that can arise during seasons of change.

His counseling style is grounded, supportive, and solution-focused, with attention to the whole person and the systems that shape daily life. Whether clients are seeking help for relationship issues, anxiety, depression, emotional regulation, or life transitions, Troy aims to provide a thoughtful, encouraging space where healing, insight, and lasting change can take place.

Sydney Talavera, LCPC, is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 10 years of experience working with adults, couples, and families. She works especially well with women who are used to carrying a lot—careers, parenting, relationships, family responsibilities, and the pressure to keep everything moving—while feeling anxious, emotionally overwhelmed, burned out, or disconnected from themselves.

Sydney’s approach focuses on helping clients better understand the patterns underneath their stress, emotions, and relationships. She helps clients explore how past experiences, family dynamics, cultural expectations, and generational patterns may continue to shape the way they respond to pressure, communicate with others, and care for themselves. Through greater insight and practical support, clients can begin making more intentional choices and creating a greater sense of balance, clarity, and stability in their lives.

In addition to working with women, her areas of focus include anxiety, depression, burnout, parenting and mental load, generational trauma, and relationship concerns. She also works well with couples navigating communication challenges, recurring conflict, and emotional disconnection.

Sydney brings a warm, culturally aware, and collaborative approach to therapy. She recognizes that culture, family roles, identity, and lived experiences can deeply influence how people understand themselves and what they believe is expected of them. Her goal is to create a space where clients feel supported while also gaining meaningful insight into the patterns they are ready to change.

Sydney offers both in-person and online telehealth sessions for clients seeking thoughtful, individualized therapy that goes beyond simply managing symptoms.