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“I got asked how I was doing. I said fine. Then somebody asked if fine was good enough, and I couldn't breathe.”
Telehealth in Indiana and Illinois
Most men say fine.
Is fine good enough?
Individual therapy and couples counseling with Jeff Stucke, MA, LMHC. Twenty-six years in private practice. Direct conversation, real work, no wasted time.
Jeff Stucke, MA, LMHC · 26 years in practice · Individual & couples · Telehealth in Indiana & Illinois
If calling is more than you want to do today, text.
Which one of these sounds familiar?
These aren't real clients. They're the conversations I have most often.
- Ray
“I was tired of feeling like an idiot in my marriage. Always apologizing, telling her she was right and I'd try harder. Or blowing up and not knowing why. I just wanted to feel like a grown-ass man in my own house.”
- Dale
“My dad had a temper. I swore I'd never be him. Then I watched my kid flinch.”
- Wes
“My dad died two years ago. I handled it. Everybody said so.”
Not sure which one? Run the check. Eight questions, under two minutes, nothing saved.
Not here for yourself? Read this if you are worried about him.
Not here for yourself? You are probably here for someone else.
26 years
In private practice, solo, in Evansville
Telehealth
Indiana and Illinois, by video
Individual & couples
Two kinds of work, one way of doing it
Self-pay
Out-of-network superbill provided on request
01Who this is for
My core work is with men who don’t like therapy, and with the couples around them.
That’s the niche, and it’s deliberate. If you have been talked into this, or you scheduled it yourself and still feel ridiculous about it, you are in the right place.
- You are functioning, and it still feels like work to get through the week.
- Your partner says something is wrong and you cannot name what it is.
- You handle everything for everyone and have no place to put your own load.
- Anger shows up faster than it used to, and over smaller things.
- You have said you would deal with it later for a long time now.
02The buffalo
The fastest way out of the storm is through it.
Cows sense a storm coming and run away from it. The storm moves faster than they do, so it catches them, and they run with it. They stay in the weather far longer than they had to.
Buffalo do the opposite. They turn and walk straight into the storm. They meet it head on, pass through the worst of it, and come out the other side.
Avoiding the hard thing does not shorten it. It lengthens it. Everything else on this site is a way of walking into the weather instead of ahead of it.
03What I do
Two kinds of work, one way of doing it.
Couples counseling
Two people who still care and cannot get a conversation to land. We work on what actually happens between you, not on scoring the argument.
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Straight ahead
Walk into the weather, not ahead of it.
04How it works
When you think you are done, you are at 40 percent.
Ask anybody who has run past it. The voice that says stop arrives well before the body is finished. Early, loud, and confident.
That same voice runs the rest of your life. If I stop, everything falls apart. If anyone sees this, I’m finished.
We get it out where you can look at it. Then we find out whether it’s true.
Jeff Stucke, MA, LMHC
05About Jeff
Only one kind of person goes to therapy. Courageous people go to therapy.
One person, start to finish, and that person is me. Twenty-six years, solo private practice, based in Evansville, working by video across Indiana and Illinois. No associates, no handoffs, no intake team.
The first session is mostly about rapport and fit, not paperwork. You should leave it knowing whether you want to come back.
06Straight answers
Questions people actually ask
The goal is change. I have spent 26 years bringing meaningful change to people's lives. Were that not the case, I would not still be practicing.
Two rules of thumb. These issues did not get like this overnight. And you get out of it what you put in.
Absolutely, and you will. Be honest about your frustration with me and with the process. That is part of the work.
Next step
A first conversation. Then you decide.
Ten minutes, about fit and nothing else. Text or call and we will talk, or send the form with your name, your number and the days that work.
If calling is more than you want to do today, text.