Jewel Kristine (Kristy) Hemmele, LCPC

Illinois · 28 years in practice

Jewel Kristine (Kristy) Hemmele is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with 28 years of experience.

License and registration

LCPC, Illinois: 180.005420 · expires March 2027
NPI: 1275704090 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 28
Languages: English

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Jewel

Jewel Kristine (Kristy) Hemmele is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with 28 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage strong emotions and life changes with steady support and practical steps. Kristy uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside other approaches to help people identify and work through painful feelings.

She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered methods, and mindfulness tools when appropriate. Sessions emphasize understanding feelings, clarifying values, and taking small, doable actions.

Background and approach

Common concerns Kristy addresses include anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and communication problems, isolation, and trauma and abuse. She also helps with parenting strain, intimacy-related issues, anger, and questions around life purpose, adoption and foster care, and first responder stress. Her style is straightforward and respectful.

She listens, asks clear questions, and helps people notice unhelpful patterns. Together they set goals and practice skills that can be used between sessions. Kristy respects each persons spiritual perspective and includes that when clients want it.

She aims to create an accepting space where people can rebuild confidence, work through guilt or shame, and find direction after loss or major life shifts. Sessions are available through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. People in Illinois may start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Jewel lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Grief
Self esteem
Depression
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Intimacy-related issues
Parenting issues
Anger management
Coping with life changes
Coaching
Adoption and foster care
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Divorce and separation
First responder issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Post-traumatic stress
Self-love
Social anxiety and phobia

Approaches Jewel names

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Online support

Emotion-focused and action-oriented approaches online

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people recognize and make sense of strong emotions. It focuses on how feelings shape choices and relationships and can be useful for healing grief, anxiety, and attachment wounds.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts without getting stuck in them and taking small actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and feeling more purposeful day to day.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, listening stance where the therapist follows the persons pace and priorities. This approach supports people who need space to reflect and make sense of what matters to them.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the situation, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. Clients and therapist decide together which tools and exercises to use.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different routines. Video lets people use visual cues during deeper discussions, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and life demands.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of concerns does Kristy help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and communication problems, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, parenting strain, intimacy issues, and life transitions.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her approach combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with client-centered listening, CBT, ACT, and mindfulness. Sessions focus on noticing feelings, setting goals, and practicing skills between appointments.

How much experience does she have?

Kristy has 28 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of emotional and life challenges.

Where is she licensed and practicing?

She is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) and practices with that credential in Illinois.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How is pricing handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with Kristy?

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