Devon Kruse-Wu
MSW, LSW
Devon is a Licensed Social Worker with an MSW from the University of Illinois, concentrating in Clinical Mental Health. He has valuable experience working with children and adolescents, including as a Special Education Teaching Assistant at Urbana Middle School, where he fostered positive connections and helped craft coping mechanisms to support academic, behavioral, and emotional goals.
Devon is interested in supporting children and adolescents through anxiety, depression, loneliness, low self-esteem, and strained relationships. He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients explore emotions and build positive self-worth.
Message from Devon
“Life can throw many difficulties our way whether that be anxiety, loss, depression, or heartbreak. And sometimes this can have us feeling hopeless and alone. It is my belief that through connection and understanding hope can grow. My goal is to create an environment where pain isn’t something to be left in the dark and that mental health issues aren’t something to be hidden. But where we can bring these issues into the light, where we can navigate through them together. Through this journey, by looking at these issues through different perspectives and creating coping mechanisms which work for you, we can create a path to a life where you feel empowered and at peace.”
