Welcome to the new Year at Gleaves Consulting
A Family-Owned Private Practice in Evergreen Park, IL
Our Guiding Mission: We are committed to quality professional service delivery and promoting positive lifestyle change. We have been consultants for family strengthening and relationship enhancement since 1998.
We are grateful for those who have come through our doors, and we would be honored to assist you, your family, friends, or anyone else you care about. We hope you will join us as this new year unfolds and grow along with us. There is a timeless phrase: “The more things change, the more things stay the same.” Our fundamental specialty areas, such as mental health and substance abuse, remain the same. Our foundational core values remain value-centered and speak to our experience in the human social service area.
A new year at Gleaves Consulting. Time has gone by since my last entry for the website. My life as a working business owner, my formal and official identification as a psychotherapist, and my most recent moniker as a content creator (as well as those times when I was particularly with my feminist roots and resonated with the moniker Content Creatrix) have all been subsumed under an album called "A healing journey." For those friends of the Gleaves Consulting community who have offered support and encouragement for me, I am very grateful and value your responses. The decision I made to share pieces of this personal healing journey was not made lightly, as by my professional training, there is a place for self-disclosure, but, not too much. However, how I have chosen to share this story because, in my view, the most critical pieces of my recovery are exactly related to three points: 1) movement is medicine, 2) quality nutrition is the most sustainable element for optimal health, and 3) as my life's work has been about examining and refining choices, consequences and responsibility, to be the most authentic, genuine and true version of myself, I am required to know the work that is mine to do. Lastly, at this point in my career, I am a bit more connected with heart-centered values, specifically with the model that HeartMath supports. So, with all that being said and the need to elaborate more on the specifics, I want to be able to bring a message of healthy living and positive lifestyle change to all I meet and hopefully educate, motivate, and inspire them to make changes in their lives so as to give themselves a quality picture of health. A few of you may know of a particularly difficult technology issue I experienced in 2023 that, for me, was no less than transformative. I came to the place that if one has the functionality to send emails, then one needs to use their digital voice. This initiative led to my work to pen the phrase, "Embodied Values" found on our updated business cards. The relocation of our business on 9/1/2022 to 3450 West Maple Street contributed a portion of the catalyst to rebrand the counseling and consulting practice of Gleaves Consulting. The real origin of the rebranding, though, really started in 2020. All of these are origin stories in and of themselves.
This year’s website will also be unique in the sense that there will be elements of history, some local information, some information from the field of education, some from the field of psychology, some from the developing field of biofeedback that will help tell the story of Gleaves Consulting. We are still here in the community after 26 years, and this is one marker of our success.
A poignant phrase written in 1730 in England is this: “A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision and a task is the hope of the world”. I love this quote because, for me, this statement is all about the purpose and labor of love that is a family-owned business.
To set up an initial consultation with Dr. Kenneth Gleaves, LCPC, or Nancy Gleaves, M.A., LCPC (Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor), regarding any of our therapy services, please contact Gleaves Consulting today.
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