Bianca Cornelius, EdS, LPC

My Story

Anxiety showed up in my life long before I had a name for it. I was accomplished and moving toward my goals, and from the outside I looked like someone who had it all together. Then, in graduate school, I had my first panic attack, stuck in bed, crying to my mother with the only words I had: "I don't know how I'm gonna get through this." I did get through it, and that experience changed the direction of my life. Anxiety, I've come to understand, is fear that has outgrown the moment, and because that alarm was learned, it can be unlearned. That unlearning, alongside the depression that often hides right behind it, is the work I've built my practice around.

What I've Learned

As an entrepreneur, a mother, and someone who has lived with chronic health conditions myself, I know how easily anxiety and depression hide behind competence. Low mood, lost motivation, and exhaustion don't announce themselves, they creep in while you keep pushing forward, and the mind and body stay in constant conversation with each other the whole time.

Why Life in Progress Exists

I built this practice for ambitious women carrying an exhaustion most people in their lives never see, the ones who've been strong for everyone else for so long they no longer know what it feels like to be held themselves. I bring more than nine years of clinical experience, an Education Specialist degree in Counseling, and evidence-based approaches translated into plain language, without jargon and without judgment. Life in Progress is named for what healing has looked like in my own life: something that unfolds over time, in ordinary days, while you're still becoming.

If any part of this sounds like you, I want you to know: this is not the end, and you do not have to figure it out alone.

Bianca Cornelius, EdS, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor | Founder, Life in Progress