About Jamie
Jamie Blakeman is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and other life challenges. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at making therapy understandable and useful for everyday life.
Jamie works with individuals who face co-occurring issues and complex symptoms. She listens first, then helps set clear goals for coping, symptom reduction, and building strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and focused on what the person needs now. Her approach combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, along with mindfulness and motivational techniques. Jamie blends these methods to match each person's situation rather than following a single formula.
She encourages self-awareness and small, manageable changes. In session she balances warmth with gentle challenge. She helps people notice patterns, test new behaviors, and build skills for handling strong emotions.
The aim is to increase resilience and improve daily functioning. Jamie practices in Illinois and offers work that addresses relationship strain, grief, addictions, attention differences, body image, chronic illness, and other concerns. She values collaboration and treats therapy as a team effort between therapist and person.
For people who want a clear plan and steady support, she offers practical tools and ongoing encouragement.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding the person's experience and building a trusting working relationship. It helps people feel heard and decide what goals matter most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with the person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean starting with skill work, adding mindfulness practices, or using distress tolerance tools from DBT as issues change over time.
Online sessions offer flexibility that fits busy lives. Video calls let people connect face-to-face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make short check-ins or coaching-style support possible between sessions. These options help maintain consistency and make it easier to practice new skills in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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