About Gillian
Gillian Van Dien is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with 17 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strains, eating and body-image struggles, and career-related pressures. Her style aims to be direct and compassionate so people can make steady changes without feeling judged.
She uses a mix of practical tools and reflective conversation.
How Gillian works
Sessions focus on learning new ways to handle strong emotions, changing unhelpful thinking, and improving communication skills. Gillian draws on approaches such as acceptance and commitment work, attachment-focused ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive restructuring, and emotionally-focused techniques to tailor care to each person. Gillian emphasizes collaboration.
She helps clients set clear goals and practices small, doable steps between sessions. That might mean experiments to test new behaviors, short skills practice, or talking through relationship patterns that keep coming up.
Her background includes nearly two decades of working with adults on coping with life changes, caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, blended family challenges, abandonment and attachment issues, and divorce-related concerns. She brings experience helping people navigate aging and geriatric matters and challenges tied to chronic pain and disability. Gillian offers sessions in English.
Services are provided by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The subscription model for sessions can be canceled at any time and cost varies depending on location and therapist availability.
Gillian lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Gillian works with
The areas below are the ones Gillian selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online access
Gillian commonly draws from acceptance and commitment work, attachment-based ideas, and client-centered listening. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. That approach fits well for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns that form in close relationships and helps people shift how they connect and regulate strong emotions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy so people feel heard while they sort through painful or confusing feelings.Finding the right method is part of therapy. Gillian treats approach selection as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That collaborative process helps tailor interventions to individual needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work visually through interaction and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is preferable. Live chat and text-based messaging can support short check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other life demands while accessing a licensed professional.
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