About Jewel
Jewel Kristine (Kristy) Hemmele is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 28 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers calm, steady guidance for people facing relationship strain, grief, depression, and self-esteem struggles. Kristy aims to make therapy practical and approachable for someone juggling many demands.
Her style centers on listening first and tailoring tools that fit each person. She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered work to help people notice what matters and take steps toward it.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, useful changes rather than quick fixes. Kristy has long experience supporting people after trauma, loss, and big life changes. She helps clients cope with isolation, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress by building manageable skills and clearer communication.
She also addresses intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, and anger in ways that respect each person’s values. People working with her can expect practical strategies for stress management, clearer decision-making around commitment and control issues, and help navigating separation or divorce. She also offers support around adoption and foster care challenges and first responder stress.
Kristy practices in Illinois and works in English. She uses straightforward language and short-term strategies when helpful, while staying open to longer work when deeper healing is needed. Her approach aims to help people regain confidence and move forward at a comfortable pace.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify personal values and take small actions that match those values. It emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors. It is practical and goal-oriented, useful for social anxiety, depression, and managing worry.
Client-centered work puts the person’s experience at the center. The therapist listens closely and offers empathy and reflection so clients can find their own solutions to relationship and self-esteem concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kristy will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs and then recommend approaches or a mix of methods that suit them. That collaborative process helps make therapy feel relevant and manageable.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging support shorter check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or recovery routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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