Social Worker
1S443 Summit Avenue
Suite 201
Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Biljana’s passion is connecting with people in helping relationships recognizing that we all struggle with various things at some points of our lives. Her primary focus is wellbeing of people she works with as she continues to expand her multicultural approach to counseling.
Biljana’s background includes working with teens, adults, and mature adults struggling with mental health issues of substance abuse and co-morbid disorders, trauma, morbid obesity, and other mood and personality disorders. She spent several years in an inpatient unit helping women of various races, cultures, and backgrounds, including homeless population. She provided individual and group counseling including Moral Reconation Therapy, movement, and music therapy. She also spent several years working with people with eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and compulsive-obsessive disorders, and teens and adults with ADHD.
Biljana acquired her master’s degree in counseling from Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and received supervision from established LCPCs and clinical psychologists in Illinois. She completed her training residences in Orlando, Florida, and Atlanta, Georgia.
Biljana bases her approach to therapy on empathy, trust, and strong therapeutic relationship. She is integrating different theoretical approaches, based on the individual needs of her patients, with special interest in Acceptance and Commitment therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy for treatment of trauma. She is LGBTQ+ affirming.
She is fluent in Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian languages.
Anxiety
Bipolar Disorder
Counseling
Depression
Esketamine
IV Ketamine
Pharmacogenomics Testing
QbTest for ADHD
Schizophrenia
TMS Therapy
Locations (2)
Suburban Behavioral Health Services
1S443 Summit Avenue
Suite 201
Oakbrook Terrace, IL, 60181
Suburban Behavioral Health Services
1751 S Naperville Road
Ste 207
Wheaton, IL, 60189
More About Biljana Kasum, LPC
NPI Number
1427791821
Provider's Gender
Female
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