About Gina
Gina Dickison greets people with a straightforward, compassionate approach. She helps individuals facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and struggles with self-esteem or addictions. Her manner is warm and goal-oriented, and she works alongside clients to set practical steps toward change.
Gina has 22 years of clinical experience and holds an LCPC, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. She has spent much of her career helping people manage work-related concerns like communication, conflict, and work-life balance, and she also offers coaching around career decisions.
How Gina works
Her clinical work covers trauma and abuse, parenting and adoption-related issues, complicated grief, and caregiver stress. She uses techniques drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to build skills for managing emotions and changing unhelpful patterns. In sessions she is directive when needed and keeps the focus on practical solutions.
Together with each person she identifies goals and creates an action plan to move toward them. She also addresses challenges such as body image, codependency, commitment or attachment concerns, and recovery from domestic violence or separation. Gina offers several ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions are scheduled to fit client needs, and the subscription model can be canceled at any time.
Gina lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Gina works with
The areas below are the ones Gina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift them. CBT often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by building concrete tools. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and supports people who struggle with trust, connection, or commitment issues.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try different techniques and adjust the plan so sessions stay focused and useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet: video calls for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions when bandwidth or movement matters, live chat for quick check-ins, and text messaging for short, ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days and let people choose the format that helps them engage with the work.
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