About Camillia
Camillia Depke is a licensed counselor (LCPC) in Illinois who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, life transitions, and ADHD-related challenges. She works with teens and adults and focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life more manageable. Camillia aims to create a respectful and compassionate space for people to start healing.
She takes a collaborative approach. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and goals. Camillia uses straightforward methods to improve focus, mood, and motivation.
Background and approach
She encourages small changes that add up over time. With 17 years of experience, Camillia draws on a variety of evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She adapts what she uses to whatever helps a person move forward.
Therapy may include skill-building, problem solving, and talking through patterns that keep someone stuck. Camillia also works on issues tied to early relationships and family of origin, attachment concerns, and feelings of emptiness or shame. She has experience supporting people facing chronic illness, chronic pain, and caregiving or aging-related stress.
Conversations often include how to communicate needs and set healthier boundaries. Her style is down-to-earth and practical. She focuses on what someone can do between sessions as well as what happens during them.
Camillia acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage and aims to walk alongside people as they pursue their goals.
Approaches that fit online care and daily life
Camillia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques aimed at improving focus, mood, and everyday functioning. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches practical strategies for organization, time management, and concentration; these tools can help with ADHD-related challenges and daily routines. Another approach emphasizes mood and thought work to reduce anxiety and depression by identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors in small steps. Each approach is described in plain terms and tied to clear actions someone can try between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and adjust methods as progress unfolds. Together they decide which techniques fit best and revisit the plan as new challenges arise.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use brief, focused exchanges when a longer meeting doesn't fit the schedule. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, or family routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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