About Skip
Skip Dettman is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship challenges. She works with individuals on grief, parenting concerns, LGBT issues, and healing from trauma and abuse. Her style aims to make hard conversations feel manageable and clear so parents can focus on next steps.
Skip keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She uses talk-based work to help clients notice patterns, try new skills, and make small changes that add up.
How Skip works
She draws on several approaches to match techniques to a person’s needs instead of forcing one method on everyone. With 13 years of experience, Skip blends empathy with practical tools. She supports people dealing with family of origin problems, abandonment, codependency, substance use, and domestic violence recovery.
She also assists those coping with self-esteem struggles, mood concerns, and the fallout from trauma. Her work often centers on building coping skills, improving emotional awareness, and repairing relationship patterns. She offers clear steps for managing cravings, calming anxiety, and handling conflict.
EMDR is one of the approaches she may use when trauma memories are a focus. Skip is licensed in Illinois as an LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Sessions are provided in English and tailored to each person’s pace and goals.
Skip lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Skip works with
The areas below are the ones Skip selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| 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
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s perspective. It helps people feel heard and build self-awareness so they can choose changes that feel right. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and change unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication for people who struggle with intense emotions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods together based on what helps most. That means sessions can shift from skills training to trauma processing when the client and therapist agree it’s needed.
Online therapy choices include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers no video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or clients who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family schedules.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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