Connie Champion
Change-focused counselor who teaches practical skills
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Connie
Connie Champion is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who uses a client-centered, practical approach to help people make changes that matter. She emphasizes solution-focused work that looks forward and narrows in on clear, attainable goals. Sessions are straightforward and organized, with an emphasis on building skills and using strengths people already have.
Parents often find this direct style helpful when life feels overwhelming. Champion draws on 24 years of experience in counseling and related roles across Wisconsin.
Background and approach
She has worked in youth settings, adult institutions, treatment courts, and community programs. That background shaped a practical way of working that blends skill teaching with real-world planning. She also has training in substance use treatment and has supervised support services.
Her main clinical tools include client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy - CBT, dialectical behavior therapy - DBT, mindfulness therapy, and motivational interviewing. These approaches are used to address stress, anxiety, mood issues, addictions, trauma, and parenting and relationship concerns. The focus is on learning skills, changing unhelpful patterns, and setting small steps toward goals.
Sessions may cover topics such as grief, sleeping and eating struggles, self-esteem, coping with life changes, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Additional areas of attention include communication problems, codependency, domestic violence, and first responder issues. Connie works in English and provides services within Wisconsin.
She blends goal-directed planning with empathy and practical tools. Parents and individuals looking for focused, skill-based support will find a therapist who prioritizes clear steps and steady progress.
Practical approaches for online family and parenting support
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. The therapist creates a respectful space and helps parents and individuals identify their own goals and solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is about spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life steps. It helps with anxiety, depression, sleep and parenting stress by teaching concrete skills to change patterns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Connie will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and suggest techniques that fit. Over the first few sessions she will adjust methods to match what is working and what feels practical for daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These options let people fit sessions around school, work, or parenting responsibilities. Using different formats also helps continue progress between appointments with short check-ins or messages when needed.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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