Welcome to Tend
Same us, a new name to grow with.
You may have known us as Grow Therapy Boutique, Naperville’s first “Grow,” founded by Lisa Pisha in 2013. But in March of 2025, we changed our name to better reflect our mission: Being a dedicated space to tend to your relationship with yourself, with others and with the world.
Tend Therapy was cultivated by a desire to create a warm, welcoming space where people feel a deep sense of belonging. Where men and women, pre-teens, teens, and adults alike feel comfortable to open up and curiously, often courageously, face their own ideas and beliefs, deepen their relationships, learn from their experiences and re-write their stories. Where individuals, families and couples feel inspired to learn from themselves and where they would ultimately do the most important thing we can do as humans...grow.
Yet in order to grow, we first must tend.
What is Tend?
Our new name, Tend Therapy, was inspired by the way we work together here as therapists, the individual, couple and family therapy services we provide to men and women, pre-teens, teens and adults alike as we hold space with warmth and welcome. Tend Therapy was also inspired by the challenges we can find ourselves in throughout life, the ones that need tending to. It’s the work we lead and facilitate with workplaces to inspire connection and creativity and the workshops and groups we facilitate as well. It’s what we love to do, how we love to relate to one another, to our clients and the work that’s required of us all. We tend. And we grow as a result of the tending.
Tend Therapy has a number of unique and incredibly talented, warm and growth-inspired humans that make up our practice in the heart of downtown Naperville. We offer in-person and remote therapy sessions for our clients that prefer tele-therapy or are limited by location and circumstances. We’re local to the Chicagoland area with a boutique feel offering high-level therapy services that are personalized and unique to each one of our clients, couples, families and companies we work with.
Meet Our Therapists
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Lisa Pisha
MS, LMFT
Founder + Therapist -
Angela Michalak
MA, LCPC
Partner + Therapist -
Carrie Thayer
MS, LMFT- Individual, Family
and Couples Therapist -
Kari Lata
MS, LCPC, LMFT
Therapist + Trauma Specialist -
Deborah Grizzell
Individual Adults
and Couples Therapist -
Sarah Greene
MS, MA, LCPC - Therapist + Team/Employee Wellness Specialist
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Emily Sanchez
MA - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
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Katie Dawson
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
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Pam Caine
MA, MSW
Parent + Family Therapist -
Brooklyn Miller
Clinical Intern + New Client Coordinator
What makes Tend therapists unique?
Our clients and each other
Tend Therapy isn’t just about helping to guide you to a better space, we’re truly about building intimately connected and lasting relationships. Each one of us deeply values the unique, individual relationship we have with every one of our clients. We consider ourselves grateful that people choose us to work with, to walk alongside their journey with, and to grow with.
Our work is an expression of who we are as individuals and the connection we value with people. We deeply honor and hold that connection within our group as well. To be able to work, grow, learn and practice alongside one another is something we’re all truly motivated by and incredibly grateful for. We’re honored to be a part of the story. We’re honored to help you tend to yourself, your relationships and your world.
Address:
121 N. Washington Street, Suite 2S
Naperville, IL 60540
Ph (630) 358-9482
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Other questions?
In every relationship, we have the potential to
tend & grow
