Practice & Therapist
A room held for the conversation that matters
Yellow Wood is a small therapy practice dedicated to assisting clients navigate relationships — with partners, with family, with friends, and with the parts of themselves they have been carrying alone.
Our founder and therapist, Amy Wolfe, LMFT, has spent years working in the mental health community before opening Yellow Wood. Her conviction is a simple one: change does not come from advice. It comes from being known.
Amy sees individuals working through dating, identity, attachment, and the long shadow of family. She sees couples navigating conflict, intimacy, betrayal, and the ordinary erosions of long partnership. The practice is based in the Chicago area and serves clients across Illinois via a secure telehealth portal.
The Name
Why Yellow Wood?
The name, Yellow Wood, is drawn from the idea that in life we often come to a place where we need to choose a new path. The image of two roads diverging — a place of decision, change, and a different outcome- can be daunting, but freeing. In therapy, we often arrive at just such a threshold: a moment when life asks us to choose without knowing where a new path might take us.
The color yellow represents joy and optimism. The forest, with its limited view, mirrors the uncertainty we all face when making important decisions. And the roads themselves represent the many directions a life can take — in relationships, career, identity, and family.
Yellow Wood is a place to pause at that turning point: to reflect, to grieve, to gather clarity, and to step forward with more of yourself intact.
The Therapist
Amy Wolfe, LMFT
Amy Wolfe, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a practice drawing on her corporate world experience and her private clinical work. She has been married for more than 25 years and is the mother of three children — a background that informs her practical, grounded approach to relationships.
Amy earned her undergraduate degree in Bio-Psychology from the University of Michigan and her Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Northwestern University. She is licensed in Illinois and holds professional membership with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and the Illinois Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (IAMFT).
She enjoys working with individuals and couples who are ready to examine the patterns that have not worked for them and make meaningful, positive changes moving forward.
Education
University of Michigan · Northwestern University
Licensure
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist — Illinois
IL license #166.001660