We offer online or distance therapy, for individuals and couples, throughout the states of Illinois and Florida. We provide in-person therapy in St. Charles, IL.
Chrones Counseling is a private practice offering online therapy to residents of Illinois and Florida. We also offer in-person therapy in St. Charles, IL.
Deanna Chrones is an LPC in Illinois and an RMHCI in Florida. She is trained in EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. She specializes in treating trauma, anxiety, and depression, as well as attachment disorders, personality disorders, bipolar disorder, prolonged grief disorder, ADHD and adjustment disorders.
Using EMDR, talk therapy, hypnosis (now referred to in the research as NSDR, or Non-Sleep Deep Rest, a way of getting in touch with the deep unconscious, to create change and drop damaging habits), and newer, cutting-edge techniques, Deanna will help you learn techniques to calm the nervous system in seconds, without anyone knowing.
Chrones Counseling focuses on empathy, acceptance, and creating a relationship that leads to healing.
We offer online counseling in Florida and Illinois.
Our approach is rooted in research.
Some of these techniques involve the eyes, some involve the face, some involve breath-work, and others are more extensive and include body-work.
All of these quicker techniques, as well as EMDR, are rooted in research, including the research of neuroplasticity and the thousands of studies done on EMDR.
You’ll learn about interpersonal neurobiology and vertical neurointegration, both of which lead to better emotion regulation and a reduction of symptoms.
Deanna shares this knowledge with other counselors to ensure you will have access to the most current and effective therapy practices.
Deanna has done original theorizing, writing, and research.
Deanna has created a new treatment for emotion suppression, which is believed to cause the symptoms of depressive, anxious, and trauma disorders. Her treatment, known as Tholage™ (formerly known as RELEASE™), has been studied at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and is now being studied by the UW system. This treatment also involves the eyes, other novel techniques, and is neurologically based.
Further, Deanna has also presented a new theory for why EMDR and Tholage™ work for people (EMDR suppresses part of the amygdala, while Tholage™ activates a different part of it). Deanna has presented her theory for EMDR and other eye movements (the “Eye Map of Emotions”), based on the fact that they retinas are made entirely of brain tissue and have neural connections to countless areas of the brain, including emotion centers, as well as existing research that shows what happens when the eyes make specific movements.
Deanna presents on these topics at national, regional, and state conferences.
We offer online counseling in Illinois and Florida.
Chrones Counseling is about empathy.
Overwhelmingly, research shows that the most healing part of therapy is the relationship that is built between the therapist and the client, known as “the therapeutic alliance.”
Chrones Counseling centers everything around the counseling / therapeutic relationship. Therapy at Chrones Counseling is all about validation, trust, and real results and healing, the main aspects of the psychodynamic and Adlerian approaches the practice is founded on.
Your therapist at Chrones Counseling will lean into the emotions, somatic / body sensations, and early life experiences that those approaches are built upon. But thoughts must be explored as well, so Chrones Counseling therapists also use cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) techniques.
