About Celeste
Celeste Trevino is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 35 years of clinical experience helping people address stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, anger, and self-esteem concerns.
Background and approach
She draws on an integrated skill set to help clients gain clearer self-understanding, process past hurts, and build practical strategies for coping with intense emotions and interpersonal challenges. Her work often centers on examining attachment patterns, communication problems, and issues related to abandonment, dissociation, and control.
Celeste also addresses a broad range of additional concerns such as body image, codependency, commitment worries, and the emotional effects of separation and divorce. She emphasizes skills that foster emotional regulation and healthier relational patterns while attending to each person’s unique story.
In sessions she blends evidence-based techniques with thoughtful reflection to promote meaningful change. Celeste’s practice in Illinois integrates approaches like cognitive behavioral methods, emotion-focused work, and existential exploration to support clients as they clarify values, build resilience, and move toward goals that matter to them.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Access
Celeste uses several well-established approaches to guide online work, tailoring them to the client’s needs. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify personal values, develop psychological flexibility, and make committed changes even in the presence of difficult thoughts or feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and developing practical skills to change behaviors and reduce symptoms. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) attends to the emotional experiences beneath relationship pain and helps people reshape interaction patterns and emotional responses.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Celeste works with each person to explore goals, preferences, and the nature of the presenting concerns, and then recommends or combines methods that best fit those needs. She adjusts style and techniques over time as progress and priorities evolve.
Online therapy with this practice is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for scheduling and different communication preferences. These options make it easier to access licensed professionals from home or work while maintaining continuity of care around changing schedules and life demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English