About Dylan
Dylan understands that when life feels like a ball of yarn, sometimes we need help finding a thread to grab. Dylan’s approach is sincere, humble and client-centered. He utilizes a culturally sensitive, trauma informed approach that honors the richness and diversity of experiences that you bring into the room. He creates a warm, safe space to explore the parts of ourselves we have often felt shamed or unaccepted for in the past. Dylan believes in the process of therapy as being non-judgmental collaboration with clients to understand, accept and embrace themselves. Everyone deserves a space to safely unpack and explore their lives, their values and prioritize their quality of life. This includes noticing that change is an ongoing process of learning, doing, committing, and recommitting. He believes in the importance of taking a functional and systemic approach to support people in living authentic, full lives.
Dylan Saks is a certified rehabilitation counselor and licensed professional counselor in the state of Illinois with experience in community, government and private practice settings.
He obtained his undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of California Berkeley where he studied the relationship between perception and underlying neurochemistry. He later attended Illinois Institute of Technology for his clinical graduate training in mental health and rehabilitation counseling with a focus on chronic conditions and disabilities. Becoming a therapist has been a journey of having a foundation of neuroscience and a tapestry of relational support that acknowledges and finds meaning in the experience of the human condition. Dylan’s work experiences in providing case management, supportive talk therapy, behavioral therapy, and couple and family therapy reflect a continued interest in understanding the importance of the context we have, the history we tell ourselves and the relationships we navigate.
Dylan’s therapeutic style honors your values and emotions as they help us to make meaning and set intentions in how we connect, relax, work and grow. He is passionate about working with people with intersectional identities, disabilities, couples adjusting to disability, caregivers, depression, anxiety, intergenerational trauma, challenging life transitions, perfectionism and doubting, and neurodiversity. Dylan believes in the power of connection and acceptance as a powerful experience of wading through pain and into hope together.
Dylan Saks is a certified rehabilitation counselor and licensed professional counselor in the state of Illinois with experience in community, government and private practice settings.
He obtained his undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of California Berkeley where he studied the relationship between perception and underlying neurochemistry. He later attended Illinois Institute of Technology for his clinical graduate training in mental health and rehabilitation counseling with a focus on chronic conditions and disabilities. Becoming a therapist has been a journey of having a foundation of neuroscience and a tapestry of relational support that acknowledges and finds meaning in the experience of the human condition. Dylan’s work experiences in providing case management, supportive talk therapy, behavioral therapy, and couple and family therapy reflect a continued interest in understanding the importance of the context we have, the history we tell ourselves and the relationships we navigate.
Dylan’s therapeutic style honors your values and emotions as they help us to make meaning and set intentions in how we connect, relax, work and grow. He is passionate about working with people with intersectional identities, disabilities, couples adjusting to disability, caregivers, depression, anxiety, intergenerational trauma, challenging life transitions, perfectionism and doubting, and neurodiversity. Dylan believes in the power of connection and acceptance as a powerful experience of wading through pain and into hope together.
Dylan Saks
dsaks@rivernorththerapy.com
dsaks@rivernorththerapy.com