About Curtis
Curtis Boehne is an Illinois-licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 28 years of professional experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, anger, addictions, and other life challenges.
Background and approach
He frames his work around creating a nonjudgmental space where clients can explore difficult thoughts and emotions while building practical strategies for coping and change. Curtis emphasizes collaboration and support as clients take the steps toward greater well-being.
His practice integrates evidence-informed methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered techniques, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to address a broad range of concerns.
That mix allows him to tailor sessions to individual needs, whether the focus is on improving communication, managing mood symptoms, coping with loss, addressing intimacy or parenting challenges, or handling stress related to caregiving and serious illness. He works with clients across many life circumstances and aims to help them clarify values, develop skills, and pursue meaningful goals.
Online Therapy Approaches and Practical Benefits
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people live in alignment with their values while learning to accept difficult internal experiences rather than avoid them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors through practical exercises and skill development, making it useful for mood problems, stress, and many daily challenges. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, active listening, and a nonjudgmental stance to foster self-exploration and personal growth and can be especially helpful when someone needs support processing emotions or clarifying goals.Choosing the right blend of these approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Curtis collaborates with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting strategies over time as progress and priorities evolve. This collaborative stance helps ensure treatment stays focused and relevant to each person’s situation.
Online therapy provides flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to maintain continuity during life transitions. These remote formats support ongoing work on coping skills, mindfulness practice, behavior changes, and emotional processing while offering multiple ways to stay connected with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English