About Me
Vickie McCarty, Ph.D.
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God, your family, and yourself all deserve the best you have to offer!
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Get the best help!
Vickie McCarty, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Pastoral Counselor
I live in Catlin Illinois along with two very active teenage boys. I have 3 adult children (all married) and 9 beautiful grandchildren.
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I certainly know how hard life can get. My father was tragically killed when I was 15 months old so my brother and I grew up in a single-parent home. My mother did the very best she could, but it didn’t spare me from some hard life issues as I grew up and started a life of my own. I’ve suffered at the hand of abuse, divorce, single parenting struggles, financial hardships, and hurts too numerous to mention here including losing my husband of 22 years to a heart attack in January of 2024. But I refused to let it destroy me! I refused to let it be a life sentence to the land of nowhere! And thanks be to God for never giving up on me!
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My goal is not just to help people have a better life here on earth, but to help people have a right relationship with God. Over and over again we see the connection between spiritual health, emotional, mental and physical health. While spiritual health alone does not make every problem go away…spiritual health is critical to bringing emotional, mental and physical health.
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Along with Counseling, I offer the Arno Profile Temperament Analysis Testing, which is a Professional Clinical Report to identify your own God-given Temperament Strengths and Weaknesses. An extremely valuable wealth of knowledge to have!
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The Genesis Process Program is an outpatient treatment program that blends sound biblical principles, and an understanding of the neurochemistry of the brain, into an effective road map to help facilitate positive changes. It's a twenty-week process (meeting once a week) to focus on healing the wounds from family and relational issues that drive self-destructive or unhealthy behavior.
The program offers proven principles and tools for obtaining lasting personal and spiritual growth and change. If you have issues of any kind, addictions, anger, control, jealousy, unforgiveness, etc…you will benefit from The Genesis Process! You can join others in a group setting or contact me for a condensed one-on-one Genesis Process. I promise it will be worth the cost!
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Feel free to call or message me if you have any questions.
(217) 651-4709
Remember, that first call is the most important one!
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If you don’t feel better at the end of our first session -then it’s FREE!
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God Bless!
Vickie McCarty, Ph.D.
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I’ve been a Christian Educator for over 40 years. I’ve always had a passion to help people and Counseling is such a rewarding opportunity to do just that.
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I finished with my Professional Clinical Certification in Temperament Counseling in 2010, received my B.A. in 2015, and my License in March of 2016. I finished my Ph.D. Degree in Christian Counseling July 2017. I became Certified to facilitate “The Genesis Process” (A relapse Prevention program for Addictive./Compulsive Behaviors) in 2016. I founded a small private Christian school in 2018 and finished my second Ph.D. in Christian Education in June 2022. I received my Certification for Chaplain from the ICPC in 2023 as well as the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team Training in 2024.