Jonna Phelps

Jonna Phelps is a licensed clinical professional counselor with about 20 years of experience helping adults manage anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. She focuses on practical coping skills and clearer communication to help people feel steadier day to day. Jonna works from a strengths-based stance and aims to validate what clients are going through while building tools they can use outside sessions.

Her background includes a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Roosevelt University and an Illinois LCPC, earned in 2001. Over two decades she has concentrated on anxiety and mood concerns and on improving everyday functioning. This experience informs a straightforward, calm approach in sessions.

Jonna uses approaches like client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people shift thoughts and behaviors that keep problems stuck. She also draws on emotionally-focused methods and mindfulness strategies to ease stress and improve emotional awareness. Motivational interviewing helps when someone wants to make changes but feels uncertain about where to start.

Many people seek her help for grief, hospice and end-of-life counseling concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and the strains of aging. She also supports people facing relationship or communication problems, career transitions, and struggles with self-esteem or purpose.

Sessions aim to identify small, practical steps a person can try between meetings, and to build communication skills that reduce conflict and isolation. The overall goal is better day-to-day coping and a clearer sense of personal strengths.

Approaches that fit remote counseling

Client-centered therapy emphasizes understanding each person as they are and offers a space to be heard without judgment. It helps when someone needs empathy, clearer self-understanding, and support while making decisions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems alive and replacing them with practical strategies. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with difficult life events.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name emotions and then use that awareness to change reactions and improve close connections. It can be helpful for grief work and for improving communication under stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will try strategies that seem to fit. This collaborative process can adjust over time as needs change.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats offered before booking because the biography does not list specific options. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove commute time so more focus goes to the conversation. Licensed professionals can adapt the same practical tools used in person to an online setting, helping with coping skills, communication practice, and grief work.