About Dima
Dima Vicital uses practical, skills-based therapy to help people manage difficult emotions and life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of experience. Dima focuses on helping people reduce stress, ease anxiety, and build stronger coping skills for everyday life.
Her work often addresses mood challenges such as depression, anger, and impulsivity. She also supports people dealing with grief, addictions, and obsessive or compulsive thoughts. Parenting concerns, attachment issues, and family problems are part of her clinical focus as well.
How Dima works
In sessions she combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness techniques, and trauma-focused work. That mix allows her to teach practical tools for changing unhelpful thoughts, managing intense emotions, and grounding after distressing memories. She aims to keep strategies simple and applicable between appointments.
Dima pays attention to cultural and identity factors that shape how people experience symptoms and recover. She also brings experience working with fertility-related stress, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and women's issues. Her approach is supportive and direct, helping people set clear goals and track small steps of progress.
People can expect straightforward conversations about what is working and what needs to change. Dima helps clients develop concrete plans for coping, improving relationships, and returning to daily routines that feel meaningful again.
Dima lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Dima works with
The areas below are the ones Dima selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Online approaches that build coping skills
Her work uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to teach clear, practical steps people can use between sessions. CBT helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and low mood, making it useful for depression, OCD tendencies, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention and awareness to reduce reactivity and improve emotion regulation, which helps with anger, rumination, and social anxiety.The right approach often becomes clear after a few conversations. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, symptoms, and daily routines. Sessions include checking what helps, adjusting techniques, and setting short-term goals together so progress is visible and flexible.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for in-depth therapy and skills demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coaching between sessions, and more frequent touchpoints during stressful times. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, childcare, and other obligations.
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