About Our Counseling Staff
Why choose DuPage Counseling Associates?
Our counselors are experienced in many different fields, including treatment of anxiety, depression, bi-polar, and other mental disorders. We also have counselors trained in addiction, and treatment of children with special needs. We can provide counseling to individuals, couples, and families, and work with adults as well as adolescents.
Our counselors are trained in various therapeutic techniques. Depending on your need, we can provide cognitive, behavioral, traditional, and Christian counseling.
Our comfortable offices and convenient location provide an ideal, safe environment for working through issues that are negatively impacting your life.
We accept Aetna and BlueCross/BlueShield PPO, and can provide you with the materials you need to work with other insurance plans.
Tracy Humphrey, LCPC
After getting her Bachelors in psychology at the University of Illinois, Tracy received her Masters in counseling from Gordon-Conwell Seminary a long time ago… She has worked in many different settings doing individual, marital and family therapy for over 15 years. Currently Tracy loves to support women as they work to find their voice and use it to shape their world. Believing that life is a gift, it is her passion to help women celebrate that gift through all the seasons of their journey.
Jennifer Nelson, LCPC, CADC
Jennifer Nelson offers a safe therapeutic environment for people to share their story. She uses a person-centered approach, along with aspects from Cognitive behavioral and motivational interviewing to help clients get to where they want to be emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
She specializes in working with people struggling with life transitions, substance abuse, and emotional & behavioral issues. She has worked in inpatient, outpatient, and residential settings over the past 9 years with teens and adults.
Jennifer graduated from Rockford University with a Bachelors in psychology and Benedictine University with a Masters. in clinical psychology. She also received her certified alcohol and drug counselor certification, along with her veterans counseling certificate from College of DuPage.
Jennifer is currently seeing clients via telehealth at this time.
Jennifer Stevenson, LCSW
Jen specializes in supporting people who feel they are experiencing the deepest struggles of their life as they stabilize, heal, and thrive. Every life has challenging seasons and no one should walk alone. With 20 years of mental health experience, Jen enjoys supporting adolescents and adults to find renewed strength and joy. She utilizes a person centered approach, CBT, and DBT to help clients with anxiety, depression, neurodivergence, pregnancy/parenting issues and trauma have a greater understanding of how their unique experiences contribute to their current state and brighter future.
Jen has her Bachelors in psychology and Masters of social work from the University of Illinois. She has had the gift of working in a variety of multi-modal organizations with a wide array of clients. Among other things, Jen has training in crisis intervention, motivational interviewing, trauma-focused CBT, DBT, and group therapy.
James Haros, LPC
James Haros received both his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Benedictine University in psychology and counseling. James enjoys working with adolescents and adults and utilizes cognitive behavioral and person-centered therapy to help his clients challenge beliefs that limit their potential.
In addition to helping people suffering with depression, his specialties include extensive experience with anxiety disorders, including panic attacks, PTSD and OCD. James is also a trained EMDR therapist, and utilizes this treatment to help people gain a better understanding of the effect of major life changes, including processing of traumatic memories.