Abby Blacklock, MA, NCC

Counselor

Abby’s goal in counseling is to help her clients gain a better quality of life and interpersonal well-being while acquiring emotional and spiritual health. For Abby, counseling is about people processing through life together.  Her counseling style involves allowing freedom for laughter and tears, conversation and silence, logic and emotion.

Abby enjoys working with adolescents, couples, and women. She has experience and specialized training helping clients work through:

• stress
• anxiety
• depression
• boundaries
• communication skills
• unplanned pregnancy and parenting skills
• premarital counseling
• relationship difficulties
• sexual deviancy
• spiritual issues

In her counseling sessions, Abby uses a variety of techniques, focusing on the more creative means of self-expression (collaging, journaling, painting, drawing, guided imagery, relaxation therapy, etc.). Her goal is to pair specific techniques with a client’s needs, empowering them to find hope, meaning, and purpose in life.

Abby has counseling experience working with college students, facilitated a life skills counseling group for residential pregnant teens, and co-facilitating court-ordered sex offender rehabilitation.

Abby has a Masters in Counseling degree from Denver Seminary and a Bachelors degree in Psychology and Religion from Baylor University. 

Abby is a Nationally Certified Counselor and is certified in PREPARE/ENRICH, which is a program for premarital and marital assessment and counseling. Before becoming a counselor, Abby spent 7 years working with adolescents in churches, camps, and Young Life programs.