About Gina
Gina Dickison is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 22 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and want clear steps to feel better. Gina offers a warm, direct approach and helps clients set practical goals they can work toward.
Gina draws on strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to address day-to-day problems. She uses client-centered and attachment-based ideas to build trust and understand how past relationships influence current behavior.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on simple, doable skills and small changes that add up over time. Her background includes work in workplace settings where she supported people with communication, conflict, and career concerns. She has also worked with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, parenting and adoption-related challenges.
That mix of settings informs a practical style that aims to meet people where they are. In sessions Gina partners with clients to set concrete goals and create action plans. She balances directive guidance with listening and reflection.
The work often includes learning coping tools, changing unhelpful thought patterns, and practicing new ways to handle stress and relationships. Gina practices in Illinois and conducts sessions in English. She uses a subscription model for appointments that can be canceled at any time and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where clarity about what matters helps guide choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with action. It teaches practical skills to reduce worry, depression, and habits that interfere with daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gina will talk through goals and preferences and recommend techniques that fit the person. This is a collaborative process where methods can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when visual cues help. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth or comfort with video is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins or coaching-style support possible between longer sessions. These options make it easier to use therapy around work, caregiving, and daily life while still focusing on skill building and goal progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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