Christian Counseling Therapists in Bloomington, IL
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 25 years of experience counseling children, adolescents and adults. My specialty is working with women. Areas of expertise include codependency, boundaries, trauma, loss, sexual abuse , separation and divorce issues, anxiety and depression. I implement services through individual and group therapy. I provide Christian counseling through the scope of God's Word and believe God brings healing and redemption into a person's life story.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 25 years of experience counseling children, adolescents and adults. My specialty is working with women. Areas of expertise include codependency, boundaries, trauma, loss, sexual abuse , separation and divorce issues, anxiety and depression. I implement services through individual and group therapy. I provide Christian counseling through the scope of God's Word and believe God brings healing and redemption into a person's life story.
Kristyn Nichols
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW, MTS
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Bloomington, IL 61704 (Online Only)
My education also uniquely positions me to offer Biblical/ Christian counseling if requested.
Accepting new clients! Do you find yourself frequently overwhelmed by negative emotions or trapped in an ever-repeating cycle? You are not alone. Thoreau said, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." It does not have to stay this way. There is hope. Many times, the first step to changing your life is to say things out loud to someone you trust. I am committed to creating a safe place for you to be real with no fear of judgment. It would be my honor to come alongside you as we work through the things that have kept you stuck for too long.
My education also uniquely positions me to offer Biblical/ Christian counseling if requested.
Accepting new clients! Do you find yourself frequently overwhelmed by negative emotions or trapped in an ever-repeating cycle? You are not alone. Thoreau said, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." It does not have to stay this way. There is hope. Many times, the first step to changing your life is to say things out loud to someone you trust. I am committed to creating a safe place for you to be real with no fear of judgment. It would be my honor to come alongside you as we work through the things that have kept you stuck for too long.
Ashley Frizzell
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, CADC
Verified Verified
Bloomington, IL 61701
Waitlist for new clients
In addition to pulling from her own experiences in marriage, motherhood, life, and 15 years of counseling, Ashley uses theories of Christian Counseling, CBT, DBT, Play Therapy, and motivational interviewing.
Taking the first step reaching out to a counselor can be difficult, however, Ashley loves meeting new people and quickly is able to put people at ease. She finds great enjoyment hearing other people’s stories. Her approach with children and teens includes a lot of humor and is lighthearted with lots of play and silliness. Her approach with adults is unconditional positive regard seeing them through the lens of grace. She always offers encouragement and hope with a side of gentle challenging of unhealthy patterns.
In addition to pulling from her own experiences in marriage, motherhood, life, and 15 years of counseling, Ashley uses theories of Christian Counseling, CBT, DBT, Play Therapy, and motivational interviewing.
Taking the first step reaching out to a counselor can be difficult, however, Ashley loves meeting new people and quickly is able to put people at ease. She finds great enjoyment hearing other people’s stories. Her approach with children and teens includes a lot of humor and is lighthearted with lots of play and silliness. Her approach with adults is unconditional positive regard seeing them through the lens of grace. She always offers encouragement and hope with a side of gentle challenging of unhealthy patterns.
Thriveworks Counseling & Psychiatry Normal
Clinical Social Work/Therapist
Verified Verified
Bloomington, IL 61701
Popular approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR, Christian Counseling, PCT, Motivational Interviewing, EFT, Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic therapy, Relational therapy, Narrative therapy, and more.
At Thriveworks, we're dedicated to providing top-tier mental health services that are easily accessible to everyone. With over 340 locations nationwide and flexible online therapy options, our professional therapists are equipped to assist you through any stress, life transitions, or ongoing mental health concerns. We prioritize your convenience and needs by offering flexible scheduling, including evening and weekend appointments, ensuring that you can start your therapy journey as early as this week. Plus, we accept most major insurance plans, making your path to mental health support smoother and more affordable.
Popular approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR, Christian Counseling, PCT, Motivational Interviewing, EFT, Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic therapy, Relational therapy, Narrative therapy, and more.
At Thriveworks, we're dedicated to providing top-tier mental health services that are easily accessible to everyone. With over 340 locations nationwide and flexible online therapy options, our professional therapists are equipped to assist you through any stress, life transitions, or ongoing mental health concerns. We prioritize your convenience and needs by offering flexible scheduling, including evening and weekend appointments, ensuring that you can start your therapy journey as early as this week. Plus, we accept most major insurance plans, making your path to mental health support smoother and more affordable.
Jerey L McKinney
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Bloomington, IL 61704
I am passionate about working with women that struggle with symptoms of anxiety and depression. Navigating motherhood, work and balancing all that life throws our way can be challenging. I provide a safe space for individuals to be their authentic self, teach methods of coping with emotions and support setting healthy boundaries to increase overall self-confidence. I also enjoy working with adolescents/teens and young adults that struggle with impulsivity, identifying and managing emotions, and learning ways of coping with challenges that they may face in school, at home or in the community.
I am passionate about working with women that struggle with symptoms of anxiety and depression. Navigating motherhood, work and balancing all that life throws our way can be challenging. I provide a safe space for individuals to be their authentic self, teach methods of coping with emotions and support setting healthy boundaries to increase overall self-confidence. I also enjoy working with adolescents/teens and young adults that struggle with impulsivity, identifying and managing emotions, and learning ways of coping with challenges that they may face in school, at home or in the community.
We all experience difficulties in life at some point, I would love to walk along side you and build a partnership as we work to deal with relationship issues, grief/loss, depression, anxiety or various life transitions. Preteens, adolescents, young adults, adults as well as couples can all benefit from therapy and working together to improve overall functioning.
We all experience difficulties in life at some point, I would love to walk along side you and build a partnership as we work to deal with relationship issues, grief/loss, depression, anxiety or various life transitions. Preteens, adolescents, young adults, adults as well as couples can all benefit from therapy and working together to improve overall functioning.
Many individuals and families have been through very difficult circumstances, including trauma. We often do not have a choice about the circumstances we face, but we can heal from these experiences and even turn them into opportunities for growth.
Many individuals and families have been through very difficult circumstances, including trauma. We often do not have a choice about the circumstances we face, but we can heal from these experiences and even turn them into opportunities for growth.
I consider myself an optimist and seek to find the best in the people I meet. I have an out-going nature. I love people and I love life and seek to help others find the same joy, even in bleak circumstances. I would like to note that I can be comfortable in most environments, working with most age groups and mental health conditions. I am a supporter and friend of the LGBTQ+ community, and I am a strong believer in the ideal that everyone should be treated equally with respect and dignity, especially when it comes to getting good mental health support and therapy when needed.
I consider myself an optimist and seek to find the best in the people I meet. I have an out-going nature. I love people and I love life and seek to help others find the same joy, even in bleak circumstances. I would like to note that I can be comfortable in most environments, working with most age groups and mental health conditions. I am a supporter and friend of the LGBTQ+ community, and I am a strong believer in the ideal that everyone should be treated equally with respect and dignity, especially when it comes to getting good mental health support and therapy when needed.
Do thoughts like "I can't shake my past", "I don't think this pain will ever go away", or "I'm stuck" preoccupy your mind? Often, when something traumatic happens, it can get trapped in your brain with the original picture, sounds, thoughts, and feelings. Since the experience is stuck there, it continues to be triggered whenever a reminder comes up. It can be the basis of a lot of discomfort and negative emotions. We can process those memories so they are no longer disturbing using an evidence based treatment called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.
Do thoughts like "I can't shake my past", "I don't think this pain will ever go away", or "I'm stuck" preoccupy your mind? Often, when something traumatic happens, it can get trapped in your brain with the original picture, sounds, thoughts, and feelings. Since the experience is stuck there, it continues to be triggered whenever a reminder comes up. It can be the basis of a lot of discomfort and negative emotions. We can process those memories so they are no longer disturbing using an evidence based treatment called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.
Making your first appointment can be one of the most challenging steps in your mental health journey. At LifeStance, we make it simple by offering both online and in-person therapy and psychiatry services, covered by major insurance plans.
Making your first appointment can be one of the most challenging steps in your mental health journey. At LifeStance, we make it simple by offering both online and in-person therapy and psychiatry services, covered by major insurance plans.
Ken Martin
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
Bloomington, IL 61701
Waitlist for new clients
If you are reading this there is good chance you are considering therapy. I sincerely respect that and commend you! Taking the next step to make "the call" is a courageous and self-honoring act, one I want to encourage you to carry out. It would be my honor to work with you in a supportive, trusting, therapeutic relationship to, mutually, seek to better understand your struggles, collaboratively develop specific, attainable goals, and develop a sound strategy for reaching those goals, all in an environment that supports you. Working together I will strive to help you feel heard, accepted, understood, and hopeful.
If you are reading this there is good chance you are considering therapy. I sincerely respect that and commend you! Taking the next step to make "the call" is a courageous and self-honoring act, one I want to encourage you to carry out. It would be my honor to work with you in a supportive, trusting, therapeutic relationship to, mutually, seek to better understand your struggles, collaboratively develop specific, attainable goals, and develop a sound strategy for reaching those goals, all in an environment that supports you. Working together I will strive to help you feel heard, accepted, understood, and hopeful.
15 Second Videos
Thriveworks Counseling & Psychiatry Normal
Jerey L McKinney
William D. Portis
Great Lakes Psychology Group - Decatur
Victoria Shirkey
Katherine Johnson
Victoria Adams
Pre-Licensed Professional
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Bloomington, IL 61704
Waitlist for new clients
In working with you, my goal is to build trust and offer you a safe place while valuing the unique perspective you bring. Together, we can tailor therapy to fit your aspirations. My services include working with individuals, couples, teens, and adults.
In working with you, my goal is to build trust and offer you a safe place while valuing the unique perspective you bring. Together, we can tailor therapy to fit your aspirations. My services include working with individuals, couples, teens, and adults.
Janet Marie Reckard
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, ACSW
Verified Verified
Bloomington, IL 61704
My ideal client is seeking relief from anxiety disorders (especially OCD, GAD, panic) across the age span. My hours flexible on an individual basis. I offer Christian-based counseling but can remain secular if desired. I individualize treatment by exploring an individual's strengths, support system, and goals through a cognitive-behavioral approach, including EXRP and EMDR
My ideal client is seeking relief from anxiety disorders (especially OCD, GAD, panic) across the age span. My hours flexible on an individual basis. I offer Christian-based counseling but can remain secular if desired. I individualize treatment by exploring an individual's strengths, support system, and goals through a cognitive-behavioral approach, including EXRP and EMDR
I believe that we are all placed in a specific place and time for a greater purpose. Life is hard and many of us lose our way and this leads to confusion, lonliness and often we develop addictive and maladaptive behaviors to deal with our issues. Our issues are real but we go about solving them in a nonproductive way. I help a client look at alternative ways of living often pulling from his strengths and encouraging him to incorporate spirituality as a guide. I am a Christ follower and incorporate His teaching into my own life and therapy.
I believe that we are all placed in a specific place and time for a greater purpose. Life is hard and many of us lose our way and this leads to confusion, lonliness and often we develop addictive and maladaptive behaviors to deal with our issues. Our issues are real but we go about solving them in a nonproductive way. I help a client look at alternative ways of living often pulling from his strengths and encouraging him to incorporate spirituality as a guide. I am a Christ follower and incorporate His teaching into my own life and therapy.
Charles Alex Parlette
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LCPC
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Bloomington, IL 61704
I have seen the positive healing effects of counseling not only in my personal life, but in the life of my clients. Everyone is unique and has their own highs and lows, and I love being with people when they are in both spaces. I want everyone that I work with to feel like they are understood, heard, and that they matter. I strive to be able to provide a space for everyone to grow into their best self.
I have seen the positive healing effects of counseling not only in my personal life, but in the life of my clients. Everyone is unique and has their own highs and lows, and I love being with people when they are in both spaces. I want everyone that I work with to feel like they are understood, heard, and that they matter. I strive to be able to provide a space for everyone to grow into their best self.
Jan Holmes Counseling
Counselor, MA, LCPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Bloomington, IL 61701 (Online Only)
I specialize in working with people around issues of shame that result from addictions, co-dependency, trauma, adoption related issues and more.
I specialize in working with people around issues of shame that result from addictions, co-dependency, trauma, adoption related issues and more.
It is easy to become sidetracked from the things we value most by the busyness of life. Has your relationship with your spouse lost its spark? Are you angry with little hope for a positive future? Do you feel defeated when trying to interact with your teen/child with everyday battles? If you are a person of faith and long to be your best, I can help! As a Christian Licensed Therapist, I have helped hundreds of families work through personal & relational conflict and challenging circumstances.
It is easy to become sidetracked from the things we value most by the busyness of life. Has your relationship with your spouse lost its spark? Are you angry with little hope for a positive future? Do you feel defeated when trying to interact with your teen/child with everyday battles? If you are a person of faith and long to be your best, I can help! As a Christian Licensed Therapist, I have helped hundreds of families work through personal & relational conflict and challenging circumstances.
Currently accepting new clients. Are you struggling with addiction, relationship issues, or mental health challenges? I offer compassionate, evidence-based support to help you navigate life's difficulties and achieve lasting positive change. My practice specializes in addiction therapy, couples counseling, and individual relationship issues, with a unique focus on integrating spirituality when appropriate.
Currently accepting new clients. Are you struggling with addiction, relationship issues, or mental health challenges? I offer compassionate, evidence-based support to help you navigate life's difficulties and achieve lasting positive change. My practice specializes in addiction therapy, couples counseling, and individual relationship issues, with a unique focus on integrating spirituality when appropriate.
Lindsey Holzhauer
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, ADHD-, CCSP
Verified Verified
Bloomington, IL 61704
Everyone’s journey is different, shaped by personal experiences and emotions. I aim to create a safe and understanding space where you can explore your thoughts and feelings. Together, we’ll identify what you need and what you're good at, then build a plan to help you overcome obstacles and live a more fulfilling life. Although, my experience spans through all ages, I have found my passion and purpose in focusing on adolescents and women.
Everyone’s journey is different, shaped by personal experiences and emotions. I aim to create a safe and understanding space where you can explore your thoughts and feelings. Together, we’ll identify what you need and what you're good at, then build a plan to help you overcome obstacles and live a more fulfilling life. Although, my experience spans through all ages, I have found my passion and purpose in focusing on adolescents and women.
When we are in emotional pain, discovering the path to peace can feel elusive. Have you recently felt like anxious thoughts are making it difficult for you to get through your days? Are you experiencing traumatic memories that interfere with your emotional and physical health, and frequently get in your way? Do you find yourself distracted and overwhelmed? You may be feeling you will “never be enough" based on past rejections, or struggling to find your voice within your relationships. If you are feeling lost and uncertain what to do next, I am here to help you find meaningful relief with compassion and non-judgment.
When we are in emotional pain, discovering the path to peace can feel elusive. Have you recently felt like anxious thoughts are making it difficult for you to get through your days? Are you experiencing traumatic memories that interfere with your emotional and physical health, and frequently get in your way? Do you find yourself distracted and overwhelmed? You may be feeling you will “never be enough" based on past rejections, or struggling to find your voice within your relationships. If you are feeling lost and uncertain what to do next, I am here to help you find meaningful relief with compassion and non-judgment.
