Therapy in Chicago for adults and couples, where identity, neurodivergence, and relationships intersect.
- The story you inherited.
- The story you've been surviving.
- The story you want to live.
We all carry three stories. Therapy is where they finally get to meet. I'm Alex Fliess, a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience, and I work with the parts of life that don't fit neatly into one category.
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- In person in Chicago, telehealth across Illinois
- Most major insurance accepted
- Neurodiversity- and LGBTQ+-affirming
Where identity, difference, and relationships meet.
Most therapists separate these topics or focus on only one. My practice is built for the place they overlap.
When your brain works differently. When your identity is in motion. When trust has been broken. When the people you love most are also the ones who make things most complicated. Those rarely show up one at a time, and therapy shouldn't pretend they do.
Two areas of focus. One practice.
Everything I do sits in one of two places, and often both.
Who you are, how you're wired.
For adults whose sense of self is shaped by neurodivergence, gender, or both, and who want a therapist who doesn't treat difference as the problem to solve.
Neurodiversity-affirming therapy
For adults with ADHD, autism, AuDHD, or late-identified neurodivergence. Therapy built around how your brain actually works.
ADHD therapy
Beyond coping strategies and into self-understanding: why you're wired this way, what you need, and how to build a life that fits.
Gender-affirming therapy
For trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and gender-expansive adults. Your identity is the starting point, never the problem. Letters for gender-affirming care available.
How you connect, how you repair.
For couples and individuals when betrayal, neurodivergence, or identity differences have made closeness harder than it should be.
Couples therapy
For couples of every configuration, including neurodiverse and LGBTQ+ partnerships, working on communication, intimacy, and the slow drift of long relationships.
Betrayal trauma & infidelity recovery
The specific injury of broken trust. Support for the hurt partner and for the couple deciding together what comes next.
Not sure where you fit?
That's common. A free consult is a conversation with no commitment and no diagnosis. We'll sort it out together.
Why people choose Three Tales
You deserve to know what working together is actually like before you pick up the phone.
What the first visit looks likeI work where these topics overlap.
A neurodiverse couple navigating betrayal. A trans person in a relationship rupture. An ADHD adult whose wiring shapes every relationship. You won't have to split yourself into separate problems.
Your brain is the starting point, not the problem.
Sessions are paced, structured, and communicated in ways that work for you. We can use written summaries, movement, breaks, or whatever makes the work usable.
Affirming because it's the foundation.
Your identity is where therapy starts. You won't spend sessions educating your therapist.
One therapist, from consult to closing session.
No intake coordinator, no rotation, no handoffs. The relationship is part of the treatment.
Because we all carry three: the story we inherited, the story we've been surviving, and the story we want to live. Therapy is where all three finally get to meet.
Ready to start writing your next chapter?
Book a free 20-minute consultation. It's a conversation, not an intake: what's going on, what you need, and whether we're a good fit.