Latina-Owned Therapy Practice in Chicago
Our Mission and Vision
About US
Through our commitment to social justice, we create a space where healing acknowledges complex layers of harms caused by oppression and generational trauma. We encourage our community, especially self-identified women, to embrace their cultural roots while recognizing oppressive beliefs and expectations that have impacted their personal well-being and how they view themselves. We believe that healing and celebration belong in a space together.
We offer individual counseling that encourages storytelling and wisdom-sharing. We believe in the importance of taking the time to listen to our clients’ experiences to comprehensively understand the roots of feelings and behaviors.
Meet the Corazón Collective
Each clinician brings their own story, training, and lived experience to the work offering therapy that honors your identity, your roots, and your voice. We’re here to hold space for you with compassion, collaboration, and deep cultural understanding.
Founder & Therapist
Therapist
Therapist
“Therapy is where we reconnect to ourselves—and to liberation.”
Susie founded Embrace Corazón Counseling with a vision of safety, empowerment, and generational healing. As a Latina therapist of Mexican ancestry, she helps self-identified women reclaim their voice and cultural identity through anti-oppressive, culturally rooted therapy.
🧡 Specialties: Identity, generational trauma, cultural reconnection
📍 Bilingual | Sliding Scale | Founder-led sessions
Licensed Clinical Social Worker |Bilingual: English & Spanish | Pronouns: She/Her/Ella
Edith Zamudio is a bilingual, bicultural therapist with over 15 years of experience providing trauma-informed, culturally responsive counseling to the Latinx community in the Chicagoland area. She specializes in supporting Latinx immigrants, first- and second-generation individuals, women navigating life transitions, and survivors of interpersonal and intergenerational trauma.
🧡 Specialties: Trauma healing, cultural identity, relationship repair
📍 Bilingual (English & Spanish) | Social Justice Framework | Southwest Side Roots
Grounded in a social justice and anti-oppressive framework, Edith integrates psychodynamic, family systems, strength-based, client-centered, and evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), narrative therapy, and mindfulness. She creates a warm, compassionate space where clients can explore cultural identity, migration stress, early life experiences, and relational patterns to foster healing, self-trust, and resilience.
Edith holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from The University of Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, with minors in Women’s Studies and Latin American Studies, from Northern Illinois University. Her clinical background includes extensive experience in medical, school-based, and community mental health settings, where she has worked with individuals and families impacted by trauma, systemic inequity, displacement, and gender-based violence.
Edith is known for creating a warm, culturally affirming space where clients feel seen, heard, and supported in their journey toward healing and self-discovery. She offers a collaborative and compassionate approach that helps individuals reconnect with their inner voice, cultural identify, strengths, and values. Whether navigating life transitions, complex family dynamics, depression, anxiety, grief and loss, Edith believes therapy is a powerful space for healing, reconnection, and meaningful change. She is honored to walk alongside clients of all backgrounds as they deepen self-understanding, build on resilience, and move forward with confidence and purpose.
“We grow when we feel seen, safe, and supported.”
Raised on the South Side, Ericka brings bilingual care and trauma-informed compassion to the therapeutic space. Her approach is shaped by personal and professional experience—especially with survivors of domestic violence and those rebuilding identity.
🧡 Specialties: Trauma, family roles, life transitions
📍 Bilingual | Identity Work | Survivor Support
Meet the Corazón Collective
Each clinician brings their own story, training, and lived experience to the work offering therapy that honors your identity, your roots, and your voice. We’re here to hold space for you with compassion, collaboration, and deep cultural understanding.
Founder & Therapist
“Therapy is where we reconnect to ourselves—and to liberation.”
Susie founded Embrace Corazón Counseling with a vision of safety, empowerment, and generational healing. As a Latina therapist of Mexican ancestry, she helps self-identified women reclaim their voice and cultural identity through anti-oppressive, culturally rooted therapy.
🧡 Specialties: Identity, generational trauma, cultural reconnection
📍 Bilingual | Sliding Scale | Founder-led sessions
Therapist
Licensed Clinical Social Worker |Bilingual: English & Spanish | Pronouns: She/Her/Ella
Edith Zamudio is a bilingual, bicultural therapist with over 15 years of experience providing trauma-informed, culturally responsive counseling to the Latinx community in the Chicagoland area. She specializes in supporting Latinx immigrants, first- and second-generation individuals, women navigating life transitions, and survivors of interpersonal and intergenerational trauma.
🧡 Specialties: Trauma healing, cultural identity, relationship repair
📍 Bilingual (English & Spanish) | Social Justice Framework | Southwest Side Roots
Grounded in a social justice and anti-oppressive framework, Edith integrates psychodynamic, family systems, strength-based, client-centered, and evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), narrative therapy, and mindfulness. She creates a warm, compassionate space where clients can explore cultural identity, migration stress, early life experiences, and relational patterns to foster healing, self-trust, and resilience.
Edith holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from The University of Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, with minors in Women’s Studies and Latin American Studies, from Northern Illinois University. Her clinical background includes extensive experience in medical, school-based, and community mental health settings, where she has worked with individuals and families impacted by trauma, systemic inequity, displacement, and gender-based violence.
Edith is known for creating a warm, culturally affirming space where clients feel seen, heard, and supported in their journey toward healing and self-discovery. She offers a collaborative and compassionate approach that helps individuals reconnect with their inner voice, cultural identify, strengths, and values. Whether navigating life transitions, complex family dynamics, depression, anxiety, grief and loss, Edith believes therapy is a powerful space for healing, reconnection, and meaningful change. She is honored to walk alongside clients of all backgrounds as they deepen self-understanding, build on resilience, and move forward with confidence and purpose.
Not currently accepting new clients
Therapist
“We grow when we feel seen, safe, and supported.”
Raised on the South Side, Ericka brings bilingual care and trauma-informed compassion to the therapeutic space. Her approach is shaped by personal and professional experience—especially with survivors of domestic violence and those rebuilding identity.
🧡 Specialties: Trauma, family roles, life transitions
📍 Bilingual | Identity Work | Survivor Support
Our Values
Healing becomes possible when feeling safe – both physically and emotionally. We prioritize creating a space where your mind and body feel connected, grounded, and secure in a sense of safety.
A key component to feeling safe is acknowledging all elements and perspectives in a story. This especially includes naming harm that occurred within experiences. In general, women are often blamed for actions and behaviors that are not their fault. We encourage self-reflection and transparent communication to unpack biases and internalized oppressive beliefs.
We acknowledge that we live in an unjust world that has caused harm to people of color, women, and marginalized communities. As part of a healing journey, we encourage self-compassion and compassion towards others. We believe every human being has inherent value and deserves empathy, compassion, and respect.
We encourage self-identified women to reclaim their voice and sense of self. Reclamation means embracing the confidence to speak your truth and honor every part of who you are, including the pieces that have been silenced by oppression. We believe in celebrating and fully integrating all aspects of your identity.
Familia/Family is often highly valued in cultures with Latin American roots. We embrace the celebrations and traditions connected to familias but also invite you to connect to your sense of individuality. Individuality is honoring and celebrating all aspects of who you are as a person.
Community is a group of people connected through shared experiences, values, and goals. We believe collective healing and storytelling can be powerful. We foster collaboration and collective growth while honoring the voices of each individual. Community creates a space to feel seen and heard.
As human beings, we believe we inherently yearn for connection with others. Connection nurtures mutual support, empathy, relationships, safety, healing and personal growth.
Culture is at the heart of our roots. Culture and indigenous roots are filled with rich history, traditions, and wisdom. We value and invite the offerings of your culture while honoring your individual and unique identity.
Guiding Principles & Approaches
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Embrace Corazón Counseling, P.C. provides anti-oppressive mental health services for self-identified women of Latin American ancestry. We acknowledge that our practice operates on the stolen land of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. We honor this land and all Indigenous caretakers past, present, and future.
Culturally-rooted therapy for Latina women
Based in Chicago, IL
Embrace Corazón Counseling, P.C. provides anti-oppressive mental health services for self-identified women of Latin American ancestry. We acknowledge that our practice operates on the stolen land of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. We honor this land and all Indigenous caretakers past, present, and future.
Culturally-rooted therapy for Latina women
Based in Chicago, IL
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