About Ramona
Ramona Hickey is an Illinois-based licensed clinical professional counselor with seven years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Ramona works with concerns around relationships, parenting, addiction, LGBT issues, and career stress.
She frames therapy around compassion and respect, and when clients ask, she includes spiritual reflection alongside clinical work. Sessions aim to identify practical steps clients can use between meetings. Ramona emphasizes clear goals tied to what matters most to each client.
How Ramona works
Her style blends several evidence-based methods to match each person’s needs. Techniques include cognitive work to shift unhelpful thinking and acceptance-based approaches to support values-based action. She also draws on emotionally-focused ideas to improve connection and regulation, plus mindfulness skills for managing distress.
Ramona pays attention to relationship patterns and family of origin issues that often underlie present struggles. She addresses attachment, abandonment, codependency, and commitment concerns in straightforward conversational work. Practical tools and short skill-building exercises are part of most sessions.
Clients can expect collaborative care that balances challenge and encouragement. Ramona helps people set realistic steps, track progress, and adjust plans as needed. The aim is steady, sustainable change rather than quick fixes.
Ramona lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Ramona works with
The areas below are the ones Ramona selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions because it focuses on meaningful goals rather than only symptom reduction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy works on identifying and changing thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to distress. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating difficulties, and problems with motivation.
Emotionally-Focused ideas help people understand and shift patterns in how they connect with others. These techniques are helpful when intimacy, attachment, communication, or family of origin issues are causing pain.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ramona will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and past experiences to decide which methods to use. Plans are adjusted as therapy progresses so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection is helpful. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or continuing work between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and travel schedules while keeping the focus on meaningful, goal-oriented change.
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