About Skip
Skip Dettman is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, and grief. She focuses on clear, practical steps so clients can feel less overwhelmed. Sessions are aimed at understanding what is happening now and finding doable ways forward.
She uses a collaborative style that asks about a person’s goals first. Conversations focus on strengths and on small behavior changes that make daily life easier. Skip listens for patterns that keep problems going and suggests concrete tools to try between sessions.
Background and approach
Her background includes 13 years of clinical work in Illinois as an LCSW. That experience includes supporting people dealing with trauma, depression, self-esteem struggles, and relationship worries. Skip also works with concerns around substance use and recovery and with people coping with family of origin issues.
Common topics she addresses include parenting stress, grief, LGBT issues, and navigating major life transitions. She also helps people who face problems like abandonment wounds, codependency, dissociation, or domestic violence impacts. The aim is practical change rather than labels.
In sessions Skip blends client-centered listening with active skills teaching. She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior strategies, and EMDR where appropriate. Her style is straightforward and empathetic, with an emphasis on what a person can do between sessions to feel safer and more capable.
Approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on respectful listening and helping people clarify what they want to change; it is useful when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental space to sort through emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness and can help when strong emotions or relationship conflicts get in the way.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people send updates, get short check-ins, or work on skills between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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