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ABC Counseling & Family Services

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ABC Counseling & Family Services

ABC Counseling & Services offers adoption support and child sexual abuse counseling with compassion and care.

We provide safe, judgment-free guidance, resources, and healing for every story.

11/07/2025

11/05/2025

Today is International Stress Awareness Day - a reminder to pause, breathe, and take care of your mind as much as your body. You can't pour from an empty cup.

10/31/2025

Ghosts and Goblins are scary...but making life's decisions doesn't have to be. 👻❤️

This Halloween, remember that adoption and counseling provide guidance, support, and safe space for families and birth parents.

10/30/2025

October 30 is Adoptee Remembrance Day- a time to honor and remember adoptees who are no longer with us and to acknowledge the complex emotions that can come with adoption.

Adoption begins with loss, and every journey deserves space for truth, healing, and mental health support. Today, we pause to listen, to learn, and to stand in compassion with the adoptee community. 💛💖

10/29/2025

Purr-fect Love Comes in All Forms 🐈💞

Just like a cat's comfort, adoption and counseling bring support, care, and reassurance to families and birth parents.

10/28/2025

We had a great time at Tazewell-Woodford Co. Headstart trick or treat event. Here at ABC Counseling we think all our clients are a big dill and relish our time spent with them.

10/21/2025

💫We have a New Featured Family this Month! Meet the Adams’ Family and let their journey remind us that love builds beautiful connections. 💞

In their words, “Our home is filled with love, laughter, support, and we are excited about the possibility of creating a safe space where a child can grow and feel deeply loved.” Check out more of their story here 👇

https://www.abccounseling.org/file/66/AdamsAdoptionProfile_OnlinePDF.pdf

10/16/2025

This week, we celebrate every story shaped by love, courage, and choice. 💛

10/13/2025

Today we honor the rich heritage, strength, and wisdom of Indigenous people. May we continue to listen, learn, and uplift their voices. 🌎🪶

10/12/2025

Happy Birthday to Karen and we are wishing you many more‼️

10/10/2025

Your mental health matters- on this day and every day. 💚 Let's continue breaking the stigma, offering grace, and reminding one another it's okay to ask for help.

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705 E Lincoln Street, Suite 303
Normal, IL
61761

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+13094519495

Website

http://www.abccounseling.org/

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About ABC Counseling & Family Services

ABC Counseling & Family Services, Inc. was founded in September of 1992. It is a private, not-for-profit, non-sectarian agency with its home office located in Normal, Illinois. The agency was opened to meet the need for specialized services in adoption and sexual abuse assessments and treatment.

Founder and Former Executive Director, Lynn Willard, came to the agency in 1992 with almost twenty years of social service experience, the last ten of which were spent in adoption and sexual abuse counseling. Lynn Willard had a dream of opening an agency that would specialize in a couple of areas of social service, and one that would be very personalized and not bureaucratic.

Lynn Willard recognized the importance of personalizing client’s needs rather than obtaining notoriety. She had experienced first hand the sorrow of adoptive couples being turned away from agencies because they were too old to adopt or because they would wait longer than couples of a particular religious affiliation. She had worked with older children placed in adoptive homes who had been sexually abused and found there were no counselors specifically trained to provide individual and group counseling.

Since ABC Counseling & Family Services opened, the agency has served over 8,000 clients and families throughout Central Illinois. Our staff has grown from one full-time and one part-time to four part-time staff and fourteen full-time staff with a steady stream of MSW and BSW interns.

ABC has also expanded and opened offices in Champaign/Urbana, Decatur, Springfield, Peoria, and Pekin, Illinois. The agency recruits student interns from Illinois State University along with other universities and trains these bachelor’s and master’s level students in skills from Adoption and Sexual Abuse Counseling to Business and Public Relations.

Our Philosophy

All children deserve to have a family and that they should be given the best opportunities in life.

In the same way birth parents are empowered to make choices, adoptive parents should be able to look to ABC for guidance and direction, not mandates. We do not have strict requirements like many agencies do.

Successful adoptions are those in which everyone’s needs are met: the child’s, the birth parent’s, and the adoptive parent’s.

ABC believes in allowing the adoptive parents and birth parents as much flexibility as possible in making the adoption plan for the child. While recognize the fact that from a legal standpoint adoptions are handled in a uniform way, each adoption is special and the circumstances surrounding it are unique.