About Verna
Verna Tickle is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Washington with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and family concerns, and struggles with self-esteem. Verna aims to make therapy calm, direct, and useful for everyday life.
She keeps sessions collaborative and practical. Verna listens first, then offers straightforward tools and steps people can try between meetings. Her focus includes codependency, commitment and communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, and drug and alcohol addiction.
How Verna works
Verna also supports people working through guilt, shame, forgiveness, isolation, and social anxiety. She pays attention to life purpose and self-love, and often helps women who want a clearer path forward. Conversations balance emotional understanding with ways to change patterns that get in the way.
Her work draws on a mix of evidence-based therapeutic techniques such as cognitive-behavioral strategies, mindfulness, and solution-focused ideas. Verna adapts methods to each person’s needs and goals rather than following a single script. Sessions move at a pace the person chooses.
People meet Verna for steady, practical support during transitions and hard choices. She aims to make sessions feel respectful and nonjudgmental. Those who work with her leave with concrete skills and clearer next steps.
What Verna works with
The areas below are the ones Verna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
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Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online support
Verna uses a few evidence-based approaches to guide online sessions. Cognitive-behavioral strategies focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes so anxiety and stress feel more manageable. Mindfulness practices help people stay connected to the present moment and reduce reactivity to difficult emotions. Solution-focused ideas concentrate on clear, short-term goals and small steps that lead to noticeable progress.Finding the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will talk about options and pick approaches based on each person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Decisions about techniques are made collaboratively so sessions fit the person rather than the other way around.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for a fuller conversation when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, faster questions between appointments, and flexible ways to keep progress moving.
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