Jamie Blakeman , LCPC

Jamie Blakeman is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, mood disorders, and life changes. Many clients seek her help for relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain, addiction, ADHD, and issues related to body image and self-esteem.

She takes a down-to-earth approach in sessions. Conversations are straightforward and practical. She helps people notice patterns, try small changes, and build skills that fit daily life.

Jamie draws on a mix of methods to match each person's needs. She uses client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to the person in the room. She uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills and mindfulness practices also appear when people need tools to manage strong emotions.

Her work often centers on co-occurring challenges, such as when mood symptoms appear alongside substance use or chronic illness. She aims to help people increase self-awareness and practical coping strategies. Sessions emphasize building strengths and manageable steps toward feeling better.

Jamie works with adults in Illinois and accepts international clients. Sessions are offered in English and are available via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and helps people find approaches that fit their goals and life demands.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-centered therapy places the person's goals and priorities first. In practice this means the therapist asks what matters most, listens closely, and shapes sessions around those concerns to make each visit useful.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions connect. Online CBT often focuses on short exercises and real-life practice between sessions to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors related to anxiety, depression, and mood symptoms.

Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers specific skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Online sessions can teach distress-tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that people can try right away.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Choices are guided by needs, preferences, and what works in day-to-day life.

Online therapy offers flexibility that often makes regular work easier to keep up. Video calls let people read body language and have longer conversations. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a quick check-in during a break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter updates, skill practice, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options help people access consistent care while fitting therapy into a busy schedule.