Crystal Lake & Huntley, Illinois

Counseling that helps you get unstuck.

Whatever brought you here, being human doesn't make you immune to stress, anxiety, burnout, or life's unexpected challenges. Therapy isn't about clichés or quick fixes. It's about understanding what's keeping you stuck and building practical tools to help you move forward.

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Protect your marriage Blair Counseling and Mediation works to provide tools that can be used to save relationships.

Protect your children Kids are deeply affected by adult or child depression, anxiety, behavior problems, conflict, and divorce.

Rebuild relationships Even if a marriage ends, family does not. It is time to strengthen parenting, co-parenting and spiritual relationships.

Our services

Help for individuals, couples, children and families.

We provide tools for all ages to save marriages and relationships, manage depression or anxiety, and help children with behavioral concerns. We work with ADHD, autism, trauma and grief.

Marriage & CouplesRebuild connection, communicate better, and feel like a team again.

AnxietyPractical tools for worry, panic, and stress that won't let go.

DepressionSupport for low mood, loss of interest, and feeling stuck.

AngerAnger evaluations and anger-management sessions, including for court.

Child BehaviorHelp for kids and teens with behavior, ADHD, anxiety, and family stress.

AddictionsA respectful, understanding approach to substance use and other addictions.

Christian CounselingFaith-based counseling, church-conflict mediation, and support for pastors.

Divorce & co-parentingCo-parenting counseling, reunification therapy, supervised visitation and parenting coordination.

MediationResolve marriage, family, divorce and other disputes with a trained mediator.

We are certified to complete anger evaluations and anger management sessions for court.
We provide a respectful and understanding approach to addiction.
Our mediators aim to bring peace to marriages, families, divorces, and any other dispute.
In addition to marriage and family mediation, we provide divorce mediation, co-parenting counseling, reunification therapy, supervised visitation and parenting coordination.
Christian, Spanish, and premarital counselors are also available.
We also offer clinical supervision and underscore the importance of maintaining professional boundaries.
Our training is informed by Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and other models.

Not sure if you need help?

Try one of our personal screenings.

Each one is a short list of questions. If several sound familiar, it may be time to talk to someone.

Most insurance and employee assistance programs accepted

We have in-network clinicians available for most insurance and employee assistance programs. Blair Counseling and Mediation will bill your insurance company or employee assistance program as a courtesy, if you wish.

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Divorce and separation

Lessen the pain of divorce.

Even if a marriage ends, family does not. We help parents protect their children and keep working together.

From our clinicians

Our books and our app.

I Want Him to Want Me

How to Respond When Your Husband Doesn't Want Sex

by Sheri Mueller, LCPC

Get it on Amazon

Out of Control

Finding Peace When Life Won't Cooperate

by Dan Blair, LMFT, LCPC

Coming soon

Minute Mood

Co-journal with a partner, or with your therapist — about a minute a day.

See the app

Our values

The relationship is what helps.

We like, value and care for our clients. We want to communicate understanding and compassion. We need to work on your goals, not ours. Most importantly, we must get feedback regarding the client's experience of the alliance and progress.

According to the most thorough reviews of the empirical literature, the most reliable predictor of successful counseling is not technique or the counselor; it is the quality of alliance between client and counselor. Better alliances result in better outcomes when working with individuals, couples and families, children and adolescents, and mandated/involuntary clients.

We also like to use humor where appropriate. Humor changes brain chemistry: it increases antibodies and blood flow and decreases stress hormones and inflammation. It creates an optimal climate for treatment, boosts memory and creativity, helps release fears, anger and stress, and supports acceptance of mistakes and situations out of our control.

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