Champaign Counseling

Our clients are not a diagnosis. Diagnosis clients with a mental health disorder labels them and creates stigma that hinders healing. Each client is a whole person with complex thoughts, feelings, emotions, experiences, and perspectives that impact their mental health. We treat the whole person and not just the diagnosis. Connection is our primary focus. Connection is a core human need. Many of the clients who walk through our door are lacking the kind of connection they need and have developed depression, anxiety, and other unhealthy coping mechanisms. The single most helpful thing we can do is show them kindness, empathy, and acceptance from the moment they call our office to the moment they walk out our door. Never stop practicing good communication. Communication is complicated and is something we, as a team, are constantly working to improve. As a company, our clients require us to be clear and concise in our communication with them. As therapists, many of our clients who do not have good communication skills need coaching and strategies that help them simplify the messages they want the other person to receive and. These same coaching strategies can help clients eliminate the stories they tell themselves in their heads as they process messages from others. We are not a “clinic.” Champaign Counseling is a warm, welcome, and safe space for clients to be supported in their journey to healing. Unlike a clinic, our space is homey and inviting – helping clients to be comfortable and vulnerable. Each client relationship is unique and special and is treated as such. Be willing to do the work. Healing is not easy. And therapy is not magic. The most successful healing journeys happen when both the client and the therapist are patient, persistent, and willing to do the work necessary to shed past traumas and coping mechanisms.