About

About

Epijennetics Counseling & Consulting offers a variety of counseling options for adolescents and adults, including individual, couple, and family counseling, as well as consulting services for non-clinical work. Epijennetics Counseling holds the belief that mental health counseling should be a holistic approach that doesn’t simply treat mental health symptoms, but assists clients in better understanding their values and priorities, finding meaning, and building a healthy and hopeful future. Counseling sessions are multi-faceted, including an in-depth and strategic approach to understanding the personality, needs, values, and background of each client. Counseling work is focused on repairing harmful beliefs, challenging unhealthy ways of thinking, and improving overall relationship and life satisfaction. Evidenced based treatments such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Schema Therapy are used to address anxiety, depression, ADHD, and a variety of other troubling mental health disorders.

Jennifer Martin Rieck is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and the owner of Epijennetics Counseling & Consulting in Libertyville, Illinois. With the philosophy that personal growth is most likely to occur in those who can sustain a posture of humility, introspection, and curiosity, she hopes to inspire others towards this posture. Using inspiration from her own life experiences, and pulling information from her education in Mental Health, she hopes to inspire and educate others in a way that empowers them to experience grace, growth, and connection, whether that be through Epijennetics, the website, or through working together in counseling.

Having personal experience with divorce and remarriage, having a blended family, and being a step-mother, adoptive mother, and biological mother, Jenn understands the complicated nature of relationships and the obstacles and challenges that sometimes make relational and emotional health a struggle. Jenn strives to use the her professional training and personal knowledge to help guide others forward through these complicated landscapes and to support them in improving their emotional, mental, and relational health.

Jenn counts it an honor to have been selected as the top Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor of 2024 by The International Association of Top Professionals and to recently have been included into Marquis Who’s Who in America‘s professional biographical database and Who’s Who of Professional Women. Read more Epijennetics news

In her free time, Jenn enjoys reading, playing piano and guitar, writing, and spending time with her family. She lives in Libertyville with her husband, four daughters, and two dogs.

Education and Focus

Jenn received her Master’s in Mental Health Counseling from Trinity International University and offers an integrative approach to therapy, combining evidenced based techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Schema Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Internal Family Systems. This approach leads to a holistic look at the origin and impact of early childhood experiences on current day symptoms of depression, anxiety, substance abuse and mood disorders, personality disorders, and relationship difficulties. Jenn has experience in community mental health and private practice and with a variety of mental health concerns and issues including depression and anxiety, grief, trauma, substance abuse, infidelity, sexual abuse, and ADHD. Jenn has received advanced training in grief and trauma therapy and specializes in helping individuals recover from Self-Sacrificing and Narcissistic relationship styles, recover from narcissistic abuse, and has a passion for fostering increased relationship and life satisfaction in her clients.

To read more about specific areas of focus, follow the links above. For more information about Jenn’s general approach to therapy, see Change: A Million Little Things or visit our blog page.

Credentials and Certifications

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (Illinois license 180.015243)

National Certified Counselor (Certificate 1430020)

Member of the Illinois Counseling Association (Member ID 66114607)

Member of the American Counseling Association (Member ID 6694826)

Member of the Illinois Mental Health Counselors Association (Member ID 67792246)

Certified Telemental Health Provider (Certificate 483476)

Member of Safe Space Alliance and the Christian Counselor Directory