About Vernon
Vernon Wiggins is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, who focuses on practical, direct work in therapy. He writes plainly and gets to the point while still prioritizing a strong working relationship. Vernon uses straightforward conversation to help people name problems and move toward change.
He draws on client-centered methods to follow a person's lead and create a respectful space. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps with unhelpful thoughts and patterns, while solution-focused tools are used to set clear, achievable goals.
How Vernon works
Vernon also uses existential ideas to help people find meaning when life feels uncertain. Over 11 years he has worked with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, grief, and trauma and abuse.
He also supports people facing relationship struggles, intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, career concerns, sleep problems, and challenges tied to identity such as LGBT matters and sexual identity questions. Vernon pays attention to how life changes and past attachment experiences affect day-to-day coping. He helps people address communication problems, codependency, abandonment worries, and compulsive patterns.
Work can include examining control issues, commitment worries, or navigating kink and alternative sex culture when that is relevant. Sessions combine practical skill building with reflective questions. Vernon uses mindfulness to teach moment-to-moment awareness and solution-focused steps to create immediate, manageable plans.
He aims to help people feel more in control and clearer about next steps.
Vernon lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Vernon works with
The areas below are the ones Vernon 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
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy is about following the person's lead and creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where concerns can be named. This approach helps with issues like identity, self esteem, and relationship questions by centering the person's own goals and experience.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It offers practical tools for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, addictions, and coping with life changes by teaching skills to shift unhelpful patterns.
Solution-Focused Therapy prioritizes small, achievable steps and clear goals. It is useful when someone wants fast, actionable changes for problems like stress, career difficulties, or specific relationship issues.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Vernon will help assess a person's needs, goals, and preferences and then use the methods that fit best. The plan can change over time as progress and priorities evolve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, coaching-style work, or ongoing written reflection. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.
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