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    Lillie Dulaney, Professional Coach & Psychotherapist

    Lillie Dulaney, Professional Coach & Psychotherapist

    (3 reviews)

    The Loop

    Although some time has passed since I first met with Lillie for one-on-one talk therapy, my…read moreexperience and subsequent results of her work are no less diminished. Lillie was a caring, insightful, and supportive therapist during one of the worst emotional periods of my life. My first session with Lillie was in late winter 2018 as I was battling episodes of depression, insecurity, and loss of self-worth due to a rough social relationship. I had never visited a therapist before, but felt that my day-to-day anxiety and misery was becoming too much and I should seek support. Lillie was covered under my company's employee benefits plan as a mental health specialist, and I met with her for a total of 5 sessions over the span of 2 months. Immediately, Lillie was welcoming and kind-hearted. She was an exceptional listener and a clear communicator. When we first began digging into areas of tension or disruption for me, my social relationship issue came pouring out in tears, and she listened intently the entire time. Never passing judgement, always seeking ways to ask intentional questions that helped me address the root of the issue, and what I could be doing to begin the healing process. I learned so many important lessons during my work with Lillie, but the three most influential ones that left lasting impressions on my mindset and lifestyle were: the power of being present, understanding the healing process, and turning energy inward. For the first lesson, Lillie would give me "homework" on how to practice was to be truly present in my daily life, as one of my biggest issues was that my mind was stuck in a negative thought loop and was fixated on the pessimistic aspects of my social relationship issue. She helped me break that loop and turn my consciousness to things happening right now, instead of things in the past that I agonized over. Secondly, she always made it clear that healing was a process - this was a difficult but necessary message that I needed to hear, and I'm glad Lillie conveyed it clearly. Even though I cried at the thought that I wasn't going to be "over it" anytime soon, that I would have more weeks of cyclical negative emotions, I learned that this is normal and the body/mind need time to absorb shock, grieve, process, and heal. Once I accepted that, I was able to take steps towards working through that process more effectively. Lastly, she helped me see how much of my energy I was spending on distraction from the true issue in order to avoid pain - I was focusing my attention and energy on everything I could find that would keep me busy, except the thing that needed the most attention: myself. This lesson hurt the most, but it was also the most effective one. I needed to sit with my emotions, with myself, and stop trying to fill the void with trivial things like drinking, going out, dating people I didn't really know or care about, etc. I needed to learn to be comfortable alone, which is a value that I still respect with the utmost importance to this very day (2 years later). I have Lillie to thank for that personal victory. Overall, Lillie is poised and professional, but also offers a safe and open space for you to do the most important self-work. Rating 4 stars instead of 5 only because I've never been to another therapist and don't have any other comparison. She was a pleasure to work with, and I would recommend her to anyone interested in talk therapy for any reason, personal or otherwise.

    Lillie is a great life coach! She is very personable and professional. She truly cares about her…read moreclients' wellbeing and approach to life. I'd definitely recommend Lillie to all!

    Ama La Vida - CEO & co-founder, Nicole, speaking on a leadership panel.

    Ama La Vida

    (33 reviews)

    Lincoln Park

    I have had such an amazing experience with Ama La Vida. From the very start when I first talked to…read moreJustice Lawson, I knew this was the right move. Justice talked me through the whole process and was so honest and easy to talk to. I am so thankful to Justice for making the decision so easy. Not only was I able to build a professional online presence, but also build my confidence and self-love as well. Coach Peggy Wu is amazing, she brings her background as a life coach into her career coaching. When I started with Peggy I was struggling to see myself as a professional. We talked about more than just my job experience and she helped remove some of my mental blocks. Peggy has been such a great source of support in the past few months. I would email her on some of my lowest days and her words always put me back on the right path. I even did two celebrity sessions with Lisa Allie. With Lisa, we went through line-by-line of my resume and she told me what was good and what needed improvement. My resume has never looked better and people are often impressed. Lisa also helped me with LinkedIn and taught me useful tools for how to get the most out of it! on top of all of that, I have completed many helpful modules. The modules are like career-focused therapy. I really feel that everyone at Ama La Vida is focused on you as a human being. Your mental health and well-being will be prioritized. I can not put a value on the experience I got out of this service as I don't know where I would be today without it. I know this post is super cheesy but I wasn't paid to say any of this and have been sincerely blown away by my experience with Ama La Vida. When I first joined I didn't expect much but at EVERY step of the way I have been met with so much positivity and support.

    Unfortunately I had a bad experience with Alma La Vida. I complied with all the exercises that were…read moregiven to me (personality tests, SWOT analysis, etc), and the coach I had most of the time did not read anything I submitted until the day of the session. I realized most of these things they could just have had me fill out before my sessions started instead of using my money to go over tests available online. My coach was not at all prepared to speak with me when our sessions started. The sessions ended up me helping her catch up on what she had missed. I thought regardless, she must have some ideas of what path I could take and could lay out a plan via email to help me through. No, she said I would have a hard time finding a job (even though it's literally her job to help me find one!). My last session in what I'd pre-paid for ended up being ignored. After asking around to a few other career coaches on LinkedIn, one of them actually gave me some free advice on next steps to take and said I'd been scammed. It's all about marketing yourself, and she suggested some fields where my specific skills could be really valuable. ALV said they would offer my last session to someone more suited to me, but my question was, why wasn't this person offered to me in the first place? Isn't it their job to pair you with someone who is professional and understands your skillset? I asked them if they would address any of the wasted sessions that didn't help me at all, maybe in the form of sessions through this better career coach. They said no, and said it was my fault for not knowing that I had a bad mentor. I was really upset. They said it's not typical of them to issue refunds, but they'd refund for my last session if I didn't want to use it. Really a complete waste, and they are indeed very expensive. They do not go the extra mile for their clients.

    Just A Little Black Card - Mel

    Just A Little Black Card

    (6 reviews)

    River North, Near North Side

    I concur with the negative reviews on yelp for this service. Yes, Mel was nice at the meeting, and…read moreI have received responses after I've emailed them. However, I bought the youswoop in Nov 2011 and it's not March 2013 and they have NEVER reached out to me with a matchmaking date, as the swoop promised. They continue to say that they are building their database. I have contacted youswoop, asked for a refund, and suggested that they don't do business with this company.

    Signed up for her matchmaking service in November because of an online YouSwoop deal. The first…read morething I noticed was Mel did not reply to my E-mails in a timely manner; so after a couple of weeks with no response, I called her. She seemed very friendly, so I was willing to attribute the lack of responsiveness to her being overwhelmed with YouSwoops. I told her about the criteria I was looking for in a date (specifically the age range I was not willing to date outside). She seemed very agreeable, although when I asked her for references, she was not able to provide any. Fast-forward to January 17th. It had been nearly 2 months since my first contact with her, and she said I was required to attend a group interview at a local restaurant before she could match me. I had to E-mail her several times to obtain the location of the interview. Then I took the night off of work and showed up at the interview, along with 2 other women. At the interview, she asked again, and I repeated my age criteria. To my surprise, she looked horrified and said there was no way she would be willing to match me with someone in the age range I was looking for (although it was a perfectly reasonable request). After the other two women left, she took me aside and told me privately that I have too much "masculine energy," and the only way she would be able to match me was if I started attending her dating classes (for an extra fee, of course). By now I was suspicious that this was a ploy to get more money, and so when she offered me refund through YouSwoop, I agreed. When I asked her in an E-mail later that night why she had wasted two months of my time instead of telling me at our initial conversation that she did not agree with my age criteria, she responded that she didn't think at the time that I had really meant what I had said! In summary: extremely unprofessional, poor communication skills, does not respond to E-mails in a timely manner, buys into offensive gender stereotypes (just because a woman is assertive & wears her hair short, that does not make her "masculine"), does not respect the wishes of her clients when it comes to things like ages of their matches, and then suspiciously tells you she can't match you unless you pay extra for her dating classes. (There was a happy ending, though: thanks to an online dating service, I am currently with a great guy who is in the age range I was looking for... and he does not think I have too much "masculine energy"!)

    Engaged Experience - lifecoach - Updated May 2026

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