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Springfield & Chatham

Counseling & Therapy

Individual, couples, and family therapy both telehealth and in person at Be Strong Mental Health and at the Garden Refuge. Learn about the several benefits of telehealth appointments.

​Every direct pay session helps provide counseling for underserved populations. Learn how.

$25 sessions available in person.
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We hope to be accepting Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Cigna in May.

Couples Counseling:
What Works-and What Doesn't
Free class Jan 31 at 10 am 

Happy woman on a counselor or therapist couch

February Only
Jana Grooms $130 session ($170 regular). Limited space. Call to schedule.

Specialties

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Helps people develop psychological flexibility by accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to value-guided actions. It blends mindfulness, defusion, and behavior change to strengthen resilience and meaning.

Accelerated Resolution Therapy

A brief eye-movement psychotherapy that helps clients quickly process traumatic memories using guided visualization and memory replacement, reducing emotional distress without detailed verbal retelling.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

A structured, evidence-based approach that helps individuals identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, problem-solving skills, and psychological functioning across disorders.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

A skills-based treatment combining cognitive-behavioral strategies with mindfulness to improve emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and reduce self-destructive behaviors, especially in high-risk and borderline presentations.

Forward Facing Trauma Therapy

A trauma informed modality that helps clients heal without revisiting traumatic memories by emphasizing present regulation, emotional safety, and future-focused growth, building resilience while reducing trauma’s impact on daily life.

Family Therapy

Support with developmental transitions from childhood to adolescence, strengthening communication, reducing conflict, and navigating challenging relational dynamics with guidance that fosters understanding, connection, stability, and healthier patterns at home.

Gottman Method Couples Counseling

A research-based approach that strengthens relationships through structured interventions targeting friendship, conflict regulation, shared meaning, and emotional attunement, helping couples build trust, repair patterns, and deepen connection. Extends to methods for treating trauma and affairs

Marriage Coaching

Uses Gottman Method Couples Therapy techniques for couples who are in less distress and with no coexisting trauma or other mental health issues. 

 

Good for couples seeking premarital counseling to prepare for their lives together

Trauma Informed Therapy

A research-based approach that strengthens relationships through structured interventions targeting friendship, conflict regulation, shared meaning, and emotional attunement, helping couples build trust, repair patterns, and deepen connection.

Free Community Classes

Spanish Language

How Science Revolutionized Couple's Therapy

850 S. Spring St., Suite B

Springfield, IL 62704

(217) 610-2620

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