About Jewel
Jewel Kristine (Kristy) Hemmele centers her work on practical, compassionate therapy that helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She brings 28 years of clinical experience and holds an IL LCPC credential. Her style is warm and straightforward, with room for clients to bring personal faith into the conversation if they wish.
Kristy helps people facing grief, low self-esteem, and trauma-related difficulties. She also supports those coping with life changes like divorce, adoption and foster care transitions, and shifts in purpose or identity.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most and helps clients set small, manageable goals. Her approach draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors. She also uses Client-Centered and Emotionally-Focused methods to strengthen emotional awareness and improve communication.
Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce overwhelm and increase calm in daily life. Sessions aim to blend practical tools with a respectful, faith-sensitive stance when that is important to the client. Kristy works with concerns such as anger, parenting strain, first responder issues, and post-traumatic stress by tailoring strategies to each person’s situation.
Therapy focuses on building coping skills, improving relationships, and clarifying values so people can move forward with more confidence. Kristy encourages steady progress through clear steps and ongoing collaboration between therapist and client.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when difficult thoughts and feelings show up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes attentive listening and validation to help people feel understood and gain confidence to make changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose tools that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. That collaboration can mean trying a mindfulness exercise one week and a behavior experiment the next, then adjusting based on what helps.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and guided exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, coaching-style support, or working through tools between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep consistent progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English