Welcome to my profile! I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Indiana with over 13 years of experience assisting individuals in reaching their goals. I'm also a strong supporter and ally of the LGBTQIA+ community.
My style is highly collaborative and solution-focused; understanding your life and perspective is my first priority. You are the expert on you and I bring with me experience and different strategies to help you on the path of your choosing, or help you to identify what that path would like, if you're not quite sure. While I tend to keep the focus in the here and now, if there are problems from the past that are impacting the present, we can explore those as well, if you choose to. I use several
techniques in my "tool box" to provide individualized, comprehensive care, including behavioral therapies (CBT, DBT) and EMDR.
Congratulations on taking the first, and often difficult, step towards creating the life that you want. Change, even when welcomed and anticipated, can bring with it a certain level of uncertainty. It takes courage to work through those unknowns and move forward, be sure to give yourself kudos for venturing out to explore a new way of doing things. When you decide to take the next step, feel free to reach out.
Additional areas of focus: Family conflicts, Grief, Parenting issues, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Depression, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Adoption and foster care, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Guilt and shame, Intellectual disability, Midlife crisis, Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships, Post-traumatic stress, Sexual assault and abuse, Sexuality, Women's issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
IL LCPC 180010213
IN LMHC 39004256A
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Christina Naujokas is a supporting counsellor who makes you feel comfortable and safe while offering good suggestions and support for your situations and not necessarily correcting you or telling you off, just helping and advising you to find your own answers.
Written on May 06, 2019 after therapy with Christina for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, self esteem, career difficulties, and coping with life changes