Deep down, we all want to live with greater authenticity, experience meaningful connection, and bring our best selves to our relationships, our families, our work, and our everyday lives. Sometimes we simply lose our way.

Meet Tracy

I believe that most people are doing the very best they can with the life experiences, relationships, and circumstances that have shaped them. Deep down, we all want to live with greater authenticity, experience meaningful connection, and bring our best selves to our relationships, our families, our work, and our everyday lives. Sometimes we simply lose our way.

My role as a therapist is not to tell people who they should become. It is to create a space where they feel safe enough to become more fully themselves.

For more than 30 years, I have devoted my career to walking alongside individuals, couples, families, and fellow clinicians as they navigate life's most difficult seasons. I believe healing begins when people feel genuinely seen, heard, and understood. Together, we make sense of painful experiences, recognize long-standing patterns, build on existing strengths, and create opportunities for lasting growth and meaningful change.

Throughout my career, I have worked in community mental health, medical settings, specialized treatment programs, private practice, higher education, and clinical leadership. These experiences have allowed me to work with people from diverse backgrounds and life circumstances while continually reinforcing one simple truth: every person's story deserves curiosity, compassion, and respect.

Today, I provide psychotherapy through Connection Psychiatry, where I also serve as Director of Therapy Services and provide clinical supervision for graduate interns and licensed therapists. I am also the co-founder of Flywheel Collaborative, a professional community designed to support independent mental health and healthcare providers through collaboration, education, and shared purpose.

My educational background includes two master's degrees from Eastern Illinois University in Higher Education and Guidance and Counseling. During graduate school, I graduated with honors in both programs and was recognized by faculty for my leadership and commitment to the counseling profession. While I value those accomplishments, I believe the most meaningful measure of my work has always been the relationships I build with clients, supervisees, and colleagues.

Whether I am providing therapy, mentoring future clinicians, or building communities that support mental health professionals, the common thread throughout my work remains the same: I believe people have an extraordinary capacity to heal, grow, and create meaningful lives when they are met with compassion, curiosity, and genuine human connection.

It would be an honor to walk alongside you as you begin—or continue—your own journey toward healing and growth.

Warmly, Tracy

We have known Tracy Bovee for twenty years, in the varying capacities of co-worker, employee, colleague, mentor, teacher, collaborator, and dear friend. Tracy has always displayed that rare combination of intelligence and emotional authenticity that many have defined as wisdom. Wherever she has practiced as a therapist and business owner, she has been successful, and a tremendous asset to her clients, peers, and communities. She has been generous with her experience and rigorously ethical in her professionalism. We have never thought twice about working with Tracy or referring others to her. We look forward to maintaining our relationship with Tracy, both personal and professional, for many fruitful years to come.

—Sandra Ahten, CEO, and Kevin Elliott, LCPC, President
Elliott Counseling Group, Champaign, IL
www.ElliottCounselingGroup.com