Our team.

Carrie A. Winkler, MSW, LCSW

CEO

Carrie Winkler is a licensed clinical social worker and therapist.  Carrie has 22 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families.  Carrie previously worked for Cunningham Children’s Home for over 21 years in a variety of roles including as a direct care worker in residential treatment, as a case manager in the specialized foster care program, as a therapist in the specialized foster care program, and as a licensed clinical therapist at the community out-patient clinic.  Carrie has provided clinical supervision to interns and unlicensed therapists.  Carrie uses an eclectic treatment approach to therapy/counseling based on evidenced-based interventions drawing from theory and psychotherapy approaches that best meet the needs of the clients.  Carrie has significant experience in treating trauma and PTSD, attachment difficulties, anxiety, depression and other mood disorders, emotional and behavioral dysregulation, grief and loss, abuse and neglect, attention difficulties/ ADHD, relationship difficulties within couples, family or peer/social relationships, and parenting issues.  Carrie has provided treatment for clients diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other more specific mental health diagnoses.  Carrie has a significant history in working with individuals and families who have been impacted by trauma, including chronic and complex trauma.  Carrie has a foundational certification as a Theraplay practitioner and is one of a few providers who hold this certification in the Champaign-Urbana area.  Information on Theraplay can be found at the home page for the Theraplay Institute at https://theraplay.org/. Carrie is also trained and certified in EMDR Therapy. Carrie has provided treatment services to clients in the office, home, school, and community settings as determined by client needs.  

Carrie attended the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana for both her undergraduate and graduate schooling, earning a Bachelor of the Arts degree in Sociology with a specialization in race, gender, and ethnicity and a Master’s degree in Social Work.  Carrie became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Illinois.

Jamey R. Bailey, MSW, LCSW

COO

Jamey Bailey is a licensed clinical social worker and therapist. Jamey has been working in the mental health field for over 20 years, including as a therapist, case manager, direct care counselor, program supervisor, and clinical consultant. Jamey has vast experience providing services to adolescents, adults, and families in a variety of environments and communities in Illinois. He believes in utilizing the treatment that best meets the needs of the client and is versed in an array of psychotherapy models that are based on empirical, evidence-based research. Jamey has worked with clients experiencing severe trauma, PTSD, and other trauma-related diagnoses, grief and loss, ADHD and related behaviors, emotional and behavioral instability, and depression and related mood disorders. Jamey is trained and certified in EMDR Therapy. He has also provided family therapy services focusing on interfamily dynamics and relationships with foster, adoptive and families of origin and has worked with clients on the autism spectrum. 

Jamey earned a Bachelor of the Arts degree in Secondary education at Monmouth College.  He attended The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana where he graduated with a Master’s degree in social work. Jamey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Illinois. 

Marie A Duffin, MSW, LCSW

Therapist

Marie A. Duffin is a licensed clinical social worker in the state of Illinois and a mental health therapist. Marie has been devotedly working with children, adolescents, adults, and families since 1998, while supporting their healing processes from their experiences of trauma. Marie has also been passionately including body psychotherapy and somatic experiencing techniques in her therapeutic approaches since 2012. Marie works collaboratively with all clients to help them to recover from their painful experiences in their past and present, so that they can experience more health, safety, peace and joy in their present and future lives.

Marie is humbly and steadfastly committed to engaging with all of her clients with culturally competent mental health practices. However, this is especially integrally true with Marie’s work with her clients who do not share the same racial and ethnic identity as her own. Marie is also proud to competently support clients of all ages who belong to the LGBTTQQIAAP+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Ally, Pansexual, & more) community with their mental health needs and identity exploration and celebration processes.

As a licensed clinical social worker, Marie continually practices attuning to the ways that each of her clients may be uniquely vulnerable to discrimination in the United States based on the intersectionality of their racial and/or ethnic identity, their religious identity, their socioeconomic status, their citizenship status, their records of arrests and/or convictions, their mental health status, their gender identity, and their sexual orientation. Marie advocates for her clients when needed to help to ameliorate these experiences of discrimination and she helps to support and empower her clients to advocate for themselves whenever it is safe and possible to do so.

Marie previously worked for Cunningham Children’s Home for 23 years in a variety of roles including as a direct care worker, supervisor, and case manager in the residential treatment program, as a case manager in the specialized foster care program, and as a therapist in the community outpatient clinic and in the intensive placement stabilization program for children and adolescents who were involved in the child welfare system. Marie also served as an associate director in the community services department for two therapeutic family engagement programs. Marie has provided clinical supervision to interns and unlicensed therapists.

Marie uses an eclectic treatment approach to therapy based on evidenced-based interventions drawing from theory and psychotherapy approaches that best meet the needs of her clients. Marie has significant experience in treating trauma and PTSD, attachment difficulties, anxiety, depression and other mood disorders, emotional and behavioral dysregulation, grief and loss, abuse and neglect, attention difficulties/ ADHD, relationship difficulties within couples, family or peer/social relationships, and parenting concerns. Marie has provided treatment for clients diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other more specific mental health diagnoses. She is also trained and certified in EMDR Therapy. Marie has a significant history in working with individuals and families who have been impacted by trauma,

including chronic and complex trauma. Marie has provided treatment services to clients in the office, home, school, and community settings as determined by client needs. Marie attended the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana from 1995-1999, during which time she earned her first undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. Marie attended the Barbara Brennan School of Healing in the state of Florida from 2007-2012, during which time she earned a second Bachelor of Science degree in Brennan Healing Science. Marie attended graduate school at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana from 2015-2017, during which time she earned a Master’s degree in Social Work. Marie became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Illinois.