CORINA MORRIS, MSW, LSW
Licensed Social Worker, SHE/HER
Heather “Corina” Morris is a Licensed Social Worker (IL license #150.111494) who brings a deeply integrative, identity-affirming, and client-centered approach to individual and relationship therapy. She earned her Master of Social Work from the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, where she developed a strong foundation in clinical psychotherapy and culturally responsive care.
As a biracial, queer-identified woman raised in the South, Corina understands firsthand what it means to navigate prejudice, cultural contradiction, and the pressure to shrink oneself to belong. With personal experience in multiple alternative and non-traditional communities, she is deeply committed to creating affirming, accessible care for women of color, queer and LGBTQIA+ folx, and those breaking free from religious communities or belief systems that were never built to hold all of who they are. Her practice is explicitly affirming and knowledgeable for clients who are polyamorous, consensually non-monogamous, or kink-identified, and is grounded in a sex-positive, stigma-free approach to care.
Corina specializes in supporting adolescents and adults navigating identity formation, a sense of belonging, and the quiet grief of never quite fitting in - whether that's within family, faith, culture, or all three at once. Her clinical interests include complex PTSD, eating disorders, borderline personality disorder, depression, anxiety, and religious trauma. She has extensive experience working with survivors of relational and systemic harm, helping clients process grief, reclaim their sense of self, and move through difficult, fast-moving life transitions with steadiness and support. Corina also works with clients untangling painful family dynamics, including experiences of racism and prejudice within family systems, and the complicated grief that comes with that. She brings particular depth to supporting clients navigating bereavement and parental loss, always holding the whole person and the broader context in view.
Corina's therapeutic style is warm, collaborative, and grounded in evidence-based practice. Her work is rooted in a psychodynamic foundation, exploring how early experiences, relational patterns, and unconscious processes shape the way clients move through the world today. Into that foundation she weaves interventions from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), giving clients both the insight to understand themselves more deeply and the practical skills to regulate emotions, clarify values, and create meaningful, sustainable change. Above all, Corina offers a space where the parts of you that have been hidden, dismissed, or told they were too much are not only welcome, they are central to the work.
