Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
I am an individual, family and marriage counselor licensed in Illinois with over 10 years of experience working as a social worker. I have worked with clients with a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, relationship issues, parenting problems, career challenges, and ADHD. I also have helped many people who have experienced sexual, physical trauma or emotional abuse. Honestly, I tell my patients if they can tell me something I haven’t heard or experienced before I’ll give you my Mickey Mouse watch. Mickey has stayed on my wrist a long time so far…
My counseling style is warm, interactive and holistic. I will help you to explore your physical, emotional and spiritual needs in an effort to bring harmony and balance into your life. That sounds fancy! It isn’t. It just means I like helping people to get comfortable in their own shoes, having their inner personality match their outer personality. I believe in treating anyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and I don’t believe in stigmatizing labels (so I highly doubt I will try to diagnose your problem, rather I try to find solutions to difficulties). My approach combines cognitive-behavioral, solution based/ brief counseling, and common sense (I’m heavy on the common sense!). I approach each person as an unique individual and don’t mind using a little humor to help look at things from a different perspective.
It takes courage to seek for a more fulfilling and happier life and to take the first steps towards a change. If you are ready to take that step I am here to support and empower you.
This program works like email so you wont get responses right away like text messages so please be patient and I will respond within 24 hours if possible. I am available for phone calls or live chat by appointment only.
I look forward to working with you!
MJ
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Mary Jennifer Meister is an individual, family, and marriage counselor licensed to practice in Illinois with 16 years of experience as a social worker. She works with a broad range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, coping with life changes, relationship and family conflicts, parenting challenges, anger management, self-esteem, career difficulties, and bipolar disorder.
Her approach is warm, interactive, and holistic. She attends to clients’ physical, emotional, and spiritual needs in order to help restore balance and comfort in daily life. She favors practical, solution-focused work that helps a person’s inner experience align with how they present in the world, and she treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion rather than relying on stigmatizing labels.
Her clinical style blends cognitive-behavioral techniques with brief, solution-based counseling and a strong emphasis on common sense, and she is willing to use appropriate humor to offer new perspectives. Having worked extensively with survivors of sexual, physical, and emotional trauma, she brings experience and steadiness to those concerns as well as to more common difficulties like depression, anxiety, parenting problems, and career stress.
She holds an Illinois license as a clinical social worker, reflecting professional training and state credentialing (IL LCSW 149016609). When working through this program, Mary communicates in an email-style format, so responses are not immediate like text messages; she aims to reply within 24 hours when possible. Phone calls or live chat are available by appointment only.
Seeking change takes courage, and Mary Jennifer Meister offers support and empowerment to those ready to take that first step toward a more fulfilling life.
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