Goodbye overwhelm & exhaustion, hello clarity & freedom!
Individualized services that fit your needs. A safe space where you can be yourself, speak your truth, and heal.
Book a free 20 minute consultation to explore your needs and answer any questions you may have about therapy.
Lyndsey Johnsen, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Holistic Therapist in Illinois
Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Holistic Therapist in Illinois
Research suggests that Holistic Therapy helps improve overall mental well-being and works well with traditional therapy approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness Based CBT. This type of therapy can offer benefits for anxiety, depression, stress, cognitive function, relationships, communication, compulsive disorders, loss, and trauma.
What is Holistic Therapy?
Holistic Therapy is an evidence-based treatment that incorporates traditional and alternative techniques. These techniques would help to gain a better understanding of your mental, emotional, physical and, at times, spiritual needs. These techniques can help you manage symptoms and increase your ability to cope and gain improvement in self-worth.
Therapy Approach
The overall therapy approach and framework is built on the foundation of cultivating strengths, accountability, and an authentic and collaborative connection. An integrative blend of therapeutic strategies focusing on achieving symptom relief, practice of mindful self-awareness, checking in with the mind-body connection and recognizing the relationship between beliefs, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. The purpose is about identifying self-sabotage and creating an intention of making step by step sustainable changes. Finding Freedom Holistic Therapy supports the discussion of topics that support social justice, diversity, inclusion, multi-cultural perspectives, religion, and spirituality.
What to Expect?
If we agree to work together, I will send you a link to fill paperwork out online through simple practice. The first few sessions will include assessment, establishing trust, and collaboration on an individualized plan. You may need short term therapy for an immediate concern or decide to go deeper and focus on long-term therapy to heal from past childhood wounds.
Therapy Modalities
A combination of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness-Cognitive Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Brief Solution Focused Therapy, and Holistic Therapy.
Holistic Therapy
Client therapy plan includes any or all of the following techniques. A customized plan will be created:
- Talk therapy to help you make sense of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
- Journaling that helps you to move out of overthinking into the present moment.
- Breathwork and stress reduction exercises that help relax the nervous system and reduce physical and mental stress.
- Emotional Freedom Technique Tapping helps to cope with difficult emotions and trauma in the body.
- Mindfulness and Centering exercises to help with stress and anxiety symptoms.
- Short Meditations that can assist you with relaxation and to gain a better understanding of self.
- Resources provided for the client and their families regarding support groups, books, and podcasts
Client Focus
Teletherapy for adults (18+) with a variety of concerns that include:
- Major Life Transitions, Change, & Life Purpose
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety
- Depression
- Grief and Loss
- Coping Skills
- Career Burnout & Stress
- Parent Burnout & Stress
- Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADS) in pregnancy and postpartum
- Trauma & PTSD
- Relationship Boundaries and Communication
- Self-Esteem and Limiting Beliefs
Sessions are conducted in via Simple Practice for HIPPA secure video.
If you are looking for Holistic Therapy in Illinois, I have immediate openings. I can help you through the stress and anxiety of life circumstances and transitions, relationships, work related stress, parental stress and burnout, pregnancy, motherhood, and in parenting.
Early morning and night availability
In Network Insurances: Optum/United Healthcare, UMR, Aetna, Cigna and more. If you need assistance determining if you have a deductible or co-pay please feel free to reach out.
You can call at 815-579-8350 or email: contact@findingfreedomholistic.com
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You can book a free 20 minute consultation to explore your needs and answer any questions you have.
Holistic Therapist in Illinois
Finding Freedom, Clarity, & Healing
Pregnancy, Postpartum & PMADs
Moms, dads, caregivers and families: A Finding Freedom Holistic Therapist can help you understand the symptoms of PMADs and how each disorder under the umbrella affects your mental, emotional, hormones, and physical health. Therapy is offered to address signs and symptoms, including Postpartum Depression, PTSD, OCD, Anxiety, and Psychosis. Your symptoms and feelings of rage, intrusive thoughts, inadequacy, disconnection, shame and guilt will be normalized in the context of your current life situation. The Therapist will assist you to determine how you can reduce stress, receive additional support, and receive healing.
Career & Parent Burnout
The goal is for you to learn how your nervous system is affected by stress. You will be able to identify triggers and learn how to understand your body’s stress signals. We will discuss strategies you can use to physically release tension and stress in your body. You will also learn strategies to recognize the body-mind connection, improve executive functioning skills, and work towards gaining work-life balance.
Grief and Loss Healing Holistic Therapy
Life can be harsh and often-times, it is difficult to know where to turn to ask for help. Whether you are experiencing grief and loss due to birth trauma, a miscarriage or stillbirth, a Finding Freedom Holistic Therapist can help take some of the burden off your shoulders with tailored grief and loss therapy in Illinois and North Carolina. With the guidance, resource support, and journaling exercises, you are given the opportunity to explore feelings, stressors, and trauma in a safe space – and together we’ll embark on a healing journey.
