About William
William "Bill" Blundell brings 17 years of counseling experience to his work in Illinois. He holds an IL LCPC and has combined clinical practice with teaching and probation work. Bill presents as approachable and relaxed, using humor when appropriate to ease tense conversations and help people feel more at ease.
He has spent much of his career helping people manage depression, anxiety, stress, anger, and relationship concerns. He also has focused experience with addiction issues and obsessive compulsive disorder, and he is comfortable talking about sensitive topics like intimacy, body image, and kink.
Background and approach
His background includes teaching courses on substance abuse, grief and loss, and human growth and development at the university level. Bill describes his style as open minded and nonjudgmental. He listens first and helps people decide what changes they want to make.
He sees counseling as a partnership where the client leads and he offers guidance, tools, and encouragement along the way. In sessions he uses practical methods drawn from approaches like cognitive behavioral work, acceptance and commitment practices, mindfulness, dialectical skills, and motivational interviewing. He aims to translate those approaches into everyday steps that fit a person's life and goals.
Bill also keeps skills current through his work in probation and consulting. He wants clients to feel heard and supported, whether they need short-term problem solving or help with longer-term change.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Bill often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy when working online. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavioral changes to improve mood and functioning. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice their values, accept difficult feelings, and take committed action toward meaningful goals.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, symptoms, and daily life, then suggest methods that fit. That decision is made together and can change as progress is made or needs shift.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and messaging or live chat can support ongoing tracking and quick check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English