Ramona Hickey , LCPC

Ramona Hickey is an Illinois-licensed counselor with seven years of clinical experience. She combines clinical approaches with a compassionate outlook and a willingness to include spiritual reflection when clients ask for it. Ramona focuses on practical steps people can use right away, and she aims to help clients feel steadier in day-to-day life.

She commonly helps people manage stress, anxiety, and depression. She also supports those coping with grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, and life transitions. Ramona works with issues around self-esteem, body image, ADHD, parenting pressures, career strain, and compassion fatigue.

Her work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and mindfulness practices. In sessions she uses simple strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts, build emotional awareness, and practice new behaviors. Spiritual values can be woven into the work when a client wants that element included.

Ramona describes therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people set clear, value-based goals and takes gradual steps toward those goals. She offers straightforward tools and gentle challenges to support progress over time.

People find her approach steady and practical. She prefers short, focused conversations that lead to small changes people can try between sessions. Ramona provides video, phone, chat, and messaging options for those who want to work remotely.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with small behavior changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on recognizing and naming emotions in relationships to create clearer communication and stronger bonds.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ramona collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort. She adjusts tools and pacing over time, and clients help decide when to try new strategies or focus on grounding and skills practice.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people have a fuller conversation and use visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, and written exercises between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the therapeutic approaches most suited to the person's goals.