Eve GunderKline, LCSW

Eve GunderKline is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Illinois with 10 years of clinical experience helping people navigate depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, and trauma recovery. She supports individuals across a wide range of concerns including grief, parenting challenges, stress and coping with life changes, intimacy and sexual issues, and the particular needs of young adults. Eve brings a trauma-informed focus to work with survivors of sexual assault and abuse, and she addresses attachment patterns, codependency, control issues, and family-of-origin dynamics with clarity and compassion.

Her practice emphasizes collaboration and respect for each person’s expertise about their own life. Eve offers a warm, genuine presence while helping clients develop resilient coping strategies, process difficult experiences, and reclaim a sense of agency. She draws on clinical approaches such as client-centered therapy, EMDR for trauma processing, psychodynamic ideas about long-standing patterns, and trauma-focused methods to tailor care to each person’s needs. Eve works with LGBT clients and those facing relationship, career, or compassion fatigue concerns, and she frames therapy as a partnership aimed at practical growth and lasting change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Eve GunderKline integrates client-centered therapy and trauma-focused methods to meet each person where they are. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental stance that helps people explore values, choices, and emotions while building self-trust and practical coping skills. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on processing the impact of traumatic events and developing tools to manage triggers, flashbacks, and the emotional aftermath of trauma.

She also uses EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - when appropriate, a structured approach that helps some people reprocess traumatic memories to reduce their emotional intensity and improve daily functioning. These approaches are chosen to address issues such as post-traumatic stress, attachment difficulties, relationship strain, and patterns that interfere with well-being.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Eve will work with each person to assess needs, preferences, and goals, adapting methods over time so therapy aligns with what helps most. Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit care into busy lives, provide continuity when schedules or locations change, and expand access to licensed professionals and therapists who can support recovery and growth.