Daylily Counseling


About Us

Daylily Counseling PLLC provides counseling services to clients of all ages with a focus on life transitions, anxiety, depression, women’s issues and perinatal mental health. We help individuals and families to better manage life stressors, to navigate transitions related to relationships, career, school, pregnancy, parenting, health challenges, migration, or loss, and to overcome trauma. Our goal is to create a safe, inclusive and warm therapy space and to walk alongside our clients in creating and sustaining the changes you want to see in your lives. All of Daylily Counseling’s services are provided virtually via telehealth. We are able to serve clients located anywhere in the state of Illinois.

  • Trauma Therapy

    We provide Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), a research-based therapy for children and adolescents who have experienced traumas such as sexual abuse, family or community violence, or loss of a loved one. TF-CBT has a beginning, middle and an end. It combines skill building and story telling and includes an active caregiver component where possible. TF-CBT helps youth let go of fear of trauma memories, reduce their post-traumatic symptoms such as nightmares or intrusive thoughts, and move forward in their lives by making meaning after trauma.

  • Counseling

    We provide therapy for clients with a variety of reasons for seeking treatment. This includes clients who are managing life transitions such as school, career, relationships, divorce, pregnancy, parenting, moving and adjusting to life in the United States, and medical issues as well as clients who are experiencing anxiety, depression, PTSD, or other mental health struggles. Therapy starts with a comprehensive assessment to fully understand who a client is as a person and to collaboratively develop a treatment plan focused on a client’s identified goals. Therapy incorporates a client’s existing strengths as well as techniques from trauma-focused, cognitive, and behavioral approaches.

  • Consultation/Supervision

    Daylily Counseling provides consultation or supervision to therapists and social workers looking for additional support. Focuses and expertise include providers working in the areas of childhood trauma, women’s issues, immigrant/refugee populations, or managing secondary traumatic stress and burnout.

  • Psychological Affidavits

    Psychological affidavits are provided for immigrant clients who are in the process of applying for asylum, SIJS, T-visas, or U-visas in the United States. The psychological affidavit process includes meeting for 1-3 sessions to complete interviews with a client and/or their caregiver, calls with the legal team, and a 5-10 page written affidavit.

Events & Groups

Pregnancy & Postpartum Processing Group

April 2024

Virtual in Illinois

Tuesdays 5-6pm

Cost: $30/group

Daylily Counseling will be piloting a pregnancy and new motherhood processing group in Spring 2024. This group is for women who are expecting a new baby, or have a baby up to one year, and will meet virtually for 5 weeks. It will provide a space for processing conversations about birth experiences, navigating systems including work, changes in identity with motherhood, relationships, and preventing and recognizing Postpartum Depression and Anxiety. Groups will also feature guest speakers, local resources, and self-care tips for mental wellness in the transition to parenthood.

Insurance & Cost Information

  • We are in-network with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Blue Choice plans, and United Healthcare.

    We recommend that clients contact the customer service number on the back of your health insurance card to verify your benefits prior to the first counseling appointment. We are happy to also run a complimentary verification of benefits check, although this information may not be as up to date as the information you are able to obtain from member customer services.

    If clients do not have insurance or prefer not to use insurance, you are also welcome to pay out of pocket. Daylily provides sliding scale fees to clients who are uninsured or underinsured. We are committed to reducing barriers to access mental health care and do our best to support clients in navigating benefits and finding a way to access services that feels sustainable.

  • Introductory Consultation - Complimentory

    Initial 60-minute Intake Session - $175

    55-minute Individual Therapy Session - $150

    Psychological Affidavits for Immigration Proceedings - $1200

  • Daylily Counseling PLLC provides Good Faith Estimates of what services may cost for clients who do not have or will not be using insurance, in accordance with the No Surprises Act. To learn more please visit: https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises

Meet the Team

  • Jenna Salek

    Jenna is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW). She graduated from Boston University's School of Social Work and has been privileged to work with clients as a therapist since 2015.

    Prior to starting Daylily Counseling, Jenna has worked in community mental health settings in Boston and Chicago, working across the life span with children, adolescents, and adults as well as providing supervision to student therapists and training to providers including interpreters and attorneys. She has experience working with individuals who are managing anxiety, depression or navigating life stressors related to transitions such as graduating high school, starting a first job, or becoming parents.

    Jenna is also passionate about working with individuals who have experienced trauma and is a nationally certified provider of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy. She has significant experience providing services to immigrant and refugee youth and young adults who have experienced trauma in their home countries or along their migration journeys, including providing psychological affidavits and support through immigration court proceedings. Her experiences with clients from around the world have informed her approach to cultural humility in the therapy space as well as her unwavering belief in every individual's capacity to heal and to grow. Jenna also enjoys working with providers in the helping professions who may be managing the impacts of secondary traumatic stress or are seeking consultation or supervision.

    Jenna’s approach combines strengths-based, client-centered, and cognitive-behavioral strategies. She believes every individual is the expert in their own life and in meeting individuals where they are. She works together with her clients to collaboratively develop a treatment plan and she hopes to create a therapeutic space where there is warmth and safety so that she can best support clients to build insight, problem solve, and take steps to heal and create change in their lives.

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