Our Specialties
Depression
Depression is more than just feeling sad or lacking motivation. If left unaddressed, it can permeate every aspect of your life, leading to disinterest in activities, difficulty completing daily tasks, and a sense of isolation. You may feel disconnected from loved ones, and work can become an insurmountable challenge. Physically and emotionally, you may feel drained and unable to do things that were once easy. Depression can manifest in different ways, and it can be dark, lonely, and hopeless. However, there is hope and a way out, a path towards enjoying life again. We are here to support you.
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Research has shown that therapy is effective in reducing depression symptoms and improving mental health. Our therapists are trained in various techniques, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness-based strategies, and Narrative Therapy, which may be incorporated into your treatment. Our therapists have undergone extensive training and professional development to provide support to individuals struggling with depression.
At Blue Kite Wellness, we offer integrative health approaches to help guide you through this journey. Our services include mind-body approaches such as mindfulness/meditation, yoga, sound baths, energy healing, and more. We also believe in providing care for the whole person, emphasizing the importance of self-care, including nutrition, physical activity, social connection, professional well-being, and hobbies. Our approach to depression is holistic and aims to support you in every aspect of your life.
If you or someone you love is impacted by depression, please contact us to schedule an appointment.
When you seek support for depression at Blue Kite Wellness, we will:
- Listen, understand, educate, and provide resources to support your self-healing.
- Teach you strategies to incorporate into your daily life.
- Help you explore patterns in your thoughts, feelings, and actions and how they impact your decision-making interactions.
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Anxiety
Anxiety
Are you finding it difficult to make decisions due to worrying about various options, reactions from others, or possible outcomes? Are you avoiding people, situations, or activities due to your own fears and insecurities? Do you struggle with concentration because your thoughts are constantly racing?
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Anxiety is a normal part of life, but when it starts to affect your everyday life to the point where you feel overwhelmed and unable to make decisions or engage in activities, it is time to seek help. It’s possible that you have become so accustomed to living with anxiety that you have learned to manage it enough to function, but you still feel like you’re falling apart inside. If this sounds familiar, we can help.
Therapy has been proven to reduce symptoms of anxiety and improve mental health. Our therapists are trained in various techniques, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness-based techniques, and other approaches that may be incorporated into your treatment. Our therapists have undergone extensive training and professional development to support individuals struggling with anxiety.
At Blue Kite Wellness, we offer integrative health approaches to help guide you through your journey. Our services include mind-body approaches such as mindfulness/meditation, yoga, sound baths, and energy healing, among others. We also believe in providing care for the whole person, emphasizing the importance of self-care, including nutrition, physical activity, social connection, professional wellbeing, and hobbies. Our approach to anxiety is holistic, and we aim to support you in every aspect of your life. If you or someone you love is experiencing anxiety, please contact us to learn more.
When you seek support for anxiety at Blue Kite Wellness, we will listen, understand, educate, and provide resources to support your self-healing. We will teach you strategies to let go of anxiety-provoking expectations and become more intentional about exploring patterns in your thoughts, behaviors, and beliefs that may be contributing to your anxiety. We will help you identify how these thoughts and behaviors are impacting your actions, decision-making, interaction with others, growth, and challenges in life.
Trauma
Blue Kite Wellness understands that trauma can take many forms and is unique to everyone. Trauma is defined as an event or series of events that overwhelm a person’s physical, emotional, and/or spiritual resources, making it difficult or impossible to cope. The impact of trauma can be profound and can cause us to suffer in isolation, often entangled with shame, blame, guilt, and anger
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Our clinicians are trained in trauma-informed care, using evidence-based techniques to alleviate the impact of trauma. We understand that trauma impacts both the body and mind, and we incorporate “bottom-up” techniques, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), to help process trauma without having to retell the story. We use grounding strategies, guided visualizations, and specific trauma-informed interventions to guide clients through the healing process, helping them set down the heavy burdens they carry and move forward in life unencumbered.
At Blue Kite Wellness, we offer a holistic approach to trauma and provide integrative health approaches, such as mindfulness/meditation, yoga, sound baths, and energy healing, among others. We believe in caring for the whole person, emphasizing the importance of self-care, including nutrition, physical activity, social connection, professional wellbeing, and hobbies.
When seeking support for trauma at Blue Kite Wellness, we will listen, understand, educate, and provide resources to support your self-healing. We provide trauma-informed therapy to help you learn how trauma has manifested in your life physically, mentally, and emotionally. We help you explore your relationship with trauma and how it impacts your actions, decision-making, interactions with others, growth, and challenges in life.
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Perinatal Mental Health
Perinatal Mental Health
Parenting is not for the faint of heart. Parenthood is a journey that will test your limits, confidence, beliefs, and endurance. Whether you are trying to conceive, on a fertility journey, newly postpartum, grieving the death of a child, or a veteran parent, we are here to support you on your parenting journey.
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Perinatal (referring to the period from conception through one year after delivery) mental health disorders are the most common complication of pregnancy. In the United States, 1 out of every 5 mothers* and 1 out of 10 fathers* struggles with their mental health during pregnancy and/or in the first year after a baby arrives. Welcoming a new member into your family can be a time of tremendous joy and significant change. As humans, we’re wired to seek comfort, predictability, and what’s familiar. Change pushes against that wiring and causes us distress. Chances are, if you’re an expectant or new parent reading this, your parenting journey has included uncertainty, exhaustion, frustration, and facing lots of change. It can be isolating, defeating, and seem impossible that life will ever look and feel different. First of all, you are not alone. Secondly, we can help.
Perinatal Mental Health disorders include antenatal (during pregnancy) and postpartum depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, manic depression, and psychosis. They affect birthing people and their partners. Signs and symptoms vary, but the most important thing to know is that if you are struggling for more than two weeks after your baby arrives, help is available. You do not need to struggle alone. Perinatal mental health conditions are one of the most effectively treated mental health challenges. Relief from your symptoms and a return to joy, confidence, and hopefulness are possible.
For more information on Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders, signs and symptoms, and resources available if you need help immediately, visit Postpartum Support International.
When you seek support for perinatal mental health disorders at Blue Kite Wellness, you will:
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- work toward better understanding your parenting journey,
- grieve the loss of “life before” and learn how to create a “new normal,”
- explore and discover who you are as an individual, parent, friend, child,
- identify the values, expectations, and needs that are meaningful to you,
- connect with others who intimately understand and can support your healing, and
- be seen, understood, and supported on your wellness journey.
*We recognize that this terminology is not gender inclusive and do not condone the use of these labels, but are reporting the categories reflected in the current research. At Blue Kite Wellness, we recognize not all people who give birth identify as women and not all partners identify as fathers.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Blue Kite Wellness recognizes that Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a complex and often misunderstood condition that affects millions of people worldwide. OCD is characterized by recurring, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions) that individuals feel driven to perform. These obsessions and compulsions can interfere with daily life, causing significant distress and anxiety.
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Therapy is proven as an effective treatment for OCD so that you can learn to manage symptoms and reduce the impact of the disorder on your daily life. Our therapists are trained in using Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Mindfulness-based therapies, Psychodynamic approaches, and group therapy to address OCD, and these techniques may be incorporated into your treatment.
At Blue Kite Wellness, we offer a holistic approach to OCD and provide integrative health approaches, such as mindfulness/meditation, yoga, sound baths, and energy healing. We believe in caring for the whole person, emphasizing the importance of self-care, including nutrition, physical activity, social connection, professional well-being, and hobbies.
When seeking support for OCD at Blue Kite Wellness, we will listen, understand, educate, and provide resources to support your self-healing.
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Grief/Loss
Grief/Loss
Grief and loss are universal experiences, yet as a society, we struggle to handle them effectively. The intense emotions that come with grief, such as sadness, anger, denial, shock, and horror, can be uncomfortable for others to witness, and well-intentioned statements can often miss the mark, causing more harm than good. As someone who is grieving, you may find yourself caring for others even though you are the one experiencing the loss. It’s not an easy situation, but we can help.
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At Blue Kite Wellness, we understand that grief is a personal and unpredictable process that varies from person to person. Some individuals are “action grievers,” throwing themselves into work or other activities, while others are “emotion grievers,” struggling to manage their feelings and return to daily activities. Regardless of how you process grief, it’s challenging to move forward and re-engage with life as you once knew it.
Therapy has been shown to be beneficial in reducing grief symptoms, improving mental health, and accepting the reality of loss. At Blue Kite Wellness, we offer a holistic approach to support your journey through grief. Our services include mind-body approaches such as mindfulness/meditation, yoga, sound baths, and energy healing, among others. We also believe in treating the whole person, emphasizing the importance of self-care, including nutrition, physical activity, social connection, professional wellbeing, and hobbies. If you or someone you love is experiencing grief, please contact us to learn more.
When you seek support for grief at Blue Kite Wellness, we provide a safe space to share your experiences and teach you coping strategies to manage and integrate your grief. We will help you understand how your thoughts and behaviors which may be impacting your actions, decision-making, interactions with others, growth, and challenges in life.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Are you constantly overwhelmed, chronically late, and finding it difficult to finish what you’ve started? Perhaps you’re struggling with remembering things, concentrating, and lacking motivation. Are these challenges impacting your daily functioning at work, at home, or with friends and family? Did you know that these are signs and symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
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Our clinicians are ready to support your process of self-discovery and explore how ADHD impacts your life. We are equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to help you learn coping strategies, organizational/executive functioning skills, and mindfulness strategies to help you stay grounded and focused. Whether you, yourself, are impacted by ADHD or you are a caregiver or loved one of someone with ADHD, we can help.
When you seek support for ADHD at Blue Kite Wellness, you will
- be seen, understood, and supported as you explore your experience with ADHD
- learn strategies to incorporate into your daily life, and
- learn to harness your strengths and wholeheartedly embrace your authentic self.
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If you are experiencing a mental health emergency and need immediate assistance, please call or text 988, call 911, or go to the nearest emergency room.
We acknowledge that we are on the traditional land of the Peoria, Bodwéwadmi (Potawatomi), Myaamia, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk), Kaskaskia, Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) Peoples, who have stewarded this land throughout the generations, and pay our respects to elders, past, present, and future. As a part of the greater world community, we’d like to extend this acknowledgment to Indigenous Peoples around the world and especially acknowledge the value of their healing and wellness practices and how much we still have to learn from them.