Gina Dickison , LCPC

Gina Dickison is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 22 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strains, addiction concerns, and parenting challenges. She has a warm, compassionate style and works in a straightforward, practical way. Gina focuses on women's issues among other concerns and aims to help clients set clear goals and take small steps forward.

Gina draws on several evidence-informed approaches to shape sessions. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills. Dialectical behavior strategies are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. Attachment-based ideas guide work around close relationships and patterns formed in early life.

Her background includes workplace counseling, career coaching, and employee assistance program work where she helped with communication, conflict, and work-life balance. She also has long experience supporting people through grief, trauma, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiving stress. This mix of settings means she is comfortable addressing both practical life problems and deeper emotional patterns.

Gina typically uses a directive, solution-focused method blended with client-centered care. That means sessions aim to identify goals, try specific strategies, and adjust plans as progress is made. She partners with clients to create realistic action steps they can use between appointments.

She offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions and works from Illinois. Sessions are conducted in English and she holds an Illinois LCPC license.

How Gina’s Approaches Work Online

Gina uses cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based ideas in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depression. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current reactions and helps people build different ways of connecting.

Finding the right approach usually happens together. Gina will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and the problems they want to address. Then she will suggest strategies and adjust them over time so the plan fits the person's life and progress.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging let clients check in between appointments or take part in brief coaching-style exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still using the same therapeutic methods outlined above.