Jamie Blakeman
Compassionate support for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jamie
Jamie Blakeman is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Illinois with 16 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and a range of life challenges. Jamie helps clients talk through daily struggles, develop coping skills, and clarify goals for change.
Her tone is straightforward and solution-minded, aimed at parents and adults looking for useful steps forward. She draws from several therapy styles to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotional regulation and tolerating distress. Client-Centered Therapy centers conversations on the client's values and pace.
Jamie often works with complex or co-occurring issues, including addictions, bipolar disorder, grief, and chronic health concerns. She also addresses relationship and intimacy matters, parenting stresses, and self-esteem struggles. The focus is on building everyday strategies that make life feel more manageable.
Sessions combine support and practical coaching. Jamie aims to increase self-awareness, teach concrete coping tools, and strengthen personal resources. She balances challenge with empathy to help people rebuild routines and resilience.
Therapy can include short-term, solution-focused work or longer-term support depending on goals. Jamie offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging options so people can choose what fits their schedule and comfort.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities, creating space for people to name what matters and move at their own pace. It helps when someone needs understanding and steady support rather than a strict treatment plan.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Jamie uses CBT to teach practical steps for changing unhelpful thinking and building healthier daily habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and handling crises. It teaches distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and improved communication, which are useful for people with mood instability or strong reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jamie will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts tools over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy makes these methods accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. That flexibility lets people fit sessions into busy schedules, continue work while traveling, or use shorter check-ins between appointments. The same therapeutic techniques apply online, and different formats can be chosen to match how a person prefers to communicate.
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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