About Jamie
Jamie Blakeman is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 16 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and relationship concerns. Jamie also supports people with ADHD, bipolar disorder, grief, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
She takes a straightforward, person-focused approach. Sessions are collaborative and practical. Jamie listens first, then helps clients set clear, manageable goals they can try between meetings.
Her method draws on client-centered work alongside cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
Background and approach
She blends these approaches to match what each person needs rather than following a single technique. In therapy she emphasizes building awareness, learning skills to handle emotions, and making small behavior changes that add up. She uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas when someone needs extra direction or accountability.
Jamie has spent many years helping people cope with co-occurring conditions and daily life stressors. Her work often focuses on increasing resilience, improving communication, and restoring routines around sleep, eating, and daily functioning. She offers sessions in English and practices from Illinois.
People can connect by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits their schedule and needs.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a strong working relationship. The therapist reflects what matters most to the person and helps them explore options at their own pace, which can ease anxiety around specific fears or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, phobias, depression, and sleep or eating patterns by teaching practical skills and short exercises to try between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, brings in skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can be useful when stress or trauma make daily life hard.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals and preferences, try strategies in session, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Clients often combine skill practice, problem-solving, and gentle exploration to get results.
Online work offers practical benefits such as flexible scheduling and easier access from different locations. Video calls let therapists and clients work face to face; phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is low; live chat or text messaging allow short updates, coaching, or support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel.
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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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