Heartland Healing Counseling & Consultation is a private group psychotherapy and wellness practice that centers LGBTQIAP+ individuals and other marginalized communities. Our providers work from queer feminist and family systems frameworks, and value self-determination, holistic health, harm reduction, and disability and racial justice.
Therapists at Heartland build therapeutic relationships through collaboration, creativity, and recognition of the environmental and cultural factors that impact the way people move through this complex world.We provide evidence-based psychotherapy across a wide breadth of diagnoses, and utilize many therapeutic modalities based on individual need, including CBT, DBT, EFT, and expressive arts and experiential therapies.
Providers at HHC utilize the bounty of clients' strengths and lived experience to affect positive change. We look forward to partnering with you to help you gain self-knowledge, confront obstacles to your growth and move toward authenticity and joy!
Therapists at Heartland build therapeutic relationships through collaboration, creativity, and recognition of the environmental and cultural factors that impact the way people move through this complex world.We provide evidence-based psychotherapy across a wide breadth of diagnoses, and utilize many therapeutic modalities based on individual need, including CBT, DBT, EFT, and expressive arts and experiential therapies.
Providers at HHC utilize the bounty of clients' strengths and lived experience to affect positive change. We look forward to partnering with you to help you gain self-knowledge, confront obstacles to your growth and move toward authenticity and joy!
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Kristi (she/her) is a therapist and advocate with 12 years of experience working with diverse groups of clients.
Kristi values an authentic, client-centered approach to therapy, without judgement.
She holds a harm reduction perspective with regards to behavior change, and employs Cognitive Behavioral, Emotion-Focused, and Motivational Interviewing techniques.
She has significant experience in addressing issues of depression, anxiety, grief and bereavement, chronic pain and illness, PTSD, substance/alcohol use (and other addictive behaviors), physical and sexual abuse, Borderline Personality Disorder, self-harm, suicidal ideation, and psychosis.
Kristi values an authentic, client-centered approach to therapy, without judgement.
She holds a harm reduction perspective with regards to behavior change, and employs Cognitive Behavioral, Emotion-Focused, and Motivational Interviewing techniques.
She has significant experience in addressing issues of depression, anxiety, grief and bereavement, chronic pain and illness, PTSD, substance/alcohol use (and other addictive behaviors), physical and sexual abuse, Borderline Personality Disorder, self-harm, suicidal ideation, and psychosis.
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We work with folks across a wide breadth of life transitions and diagnoses to find strategies for interrupting unhelpful narratives and behavior, establishing healthy habits, and working toward wellness and self-actualization.
Sexuality is deeply complex, with profound potential for connection and pleasure.
It can also be a source of confusion, pain, and anxiety.
Our trained providers will help support you through issues such as sexual dysfunction, shame, and sexual trauma, and will help you work toward the sexual experiences and fulfillment you desire.
Our providers are here to help!
We work with folks across a wide breadth of life transitions and diagnoses to find strategies for interrupting unhelpful narratives and behavior, establishing healthy habits, and working toward wellness and self-actualization.
Sexuality is deeply complex, with profound potential for connection and pleasure.
It can also be a source of confusion, pain, and anxiety.
Our trained providers will help support you through issues such as sexual dysfunction, shame, and sexual trauma, and will help you work toward the sexual experiences and fulfillment you desire.
Cassandra Avenatti (she/they) is a radical social worker, educator, activist and artist based in the Midwest.
They are a queer feminist with nearly 15 years of experience in community organizing, non-profit leadership, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and direct clinical work with marginalized communities.
Cassandra completed their graduate degree at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where they studied under queer scholars while engaging in street-based organizing in Chicago's queer and sex worker communities.
They are a queer feminist with nearly 15 years of experience in community organizing, non-profit leadership, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and direct clinical work with marginalized communities.
Cassandra completed their graduate degree at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where they studied under queer scholars while engaging in street-based organizing in Chicago's queer and sex worker communities.
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