About Jamie
Jamie Blakeman is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 16 years of experience helping adults navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, mood disorders, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and a wide range of life challenges.
Background and approach
She works with people who face co-occurring disorders, grief, compassion fatigue, and issues around identity and self-esteem, and she also addresses practical struggles such as sleep, eating, parenting, and career concerns. Her practice includes additional focus areas like attachment challenges, body image, chronic illness and pain, dissociation, and personality-related concerns.
Jamie draws on a client-centered, collaborative stance and integrates evidence-informed methods to tailor care to each person’s needs. She commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, dialectical behavior strategies to build emotional regulation and distress tolerance, and motivational and solution-focused tools to support change and practical problem solving.
Jamie emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as a foundation for growth and aims to help clients increase self-awareness, strengthen coping skills, and build resilience for a more meaningful day-to-day life.
Online Approaches That Support Practical Growth
Jamie often integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy into online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior that contribute to distress and teaches practical skills to reframe thinking and build healthier habits; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and many daily challenges. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness to help manage intense emotions and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Jamie collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors interventions over time and encourages clients to give feedback so the plan evolves as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - which can make it easier to attend sessions around work, family, or health obligations. These options increase accessibility and allow clients to practice skills between sessions while maintaining continuity of care with licensed professionals.
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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