About Vernon
Vernon Wiggins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Texas. He brings 11 years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. Vernon aims to be direct while keeping the relationship respectful and collaborative.
He uses a client-centered stance that starts with listening to what matters most to the person in front of him. Vernon also applies cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are used to strengthen coping skills and highlight practical steps forward. Vernon works with many issues including grief, depression, addictions, self-esteem, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related struggles. He also supports people dealing with parenting stress, career challenges, sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue.
Additional areas of focus include ADHD, body image, attachment concerns, and alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink. Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented while remaining respectful of each person's pace. Vernon aims to identify core concerns quickly and work with clients on clear strategies for change.
He balances direct feedback with listening so clients can set realistic steps toward their goals. Therapy can include short-term skill building or longer work on deeper patterns depending on what a person needs. Vernon offers services in English and conducts sessions using multiple online formats to fit different schedules and preferences.
Practical approaches for online counseling and anxiety
Vernon draws on client-centered work to create space for each person's priorities. This approach means sessions begin by listening to what matters most, then shaping goals around those concerns. Client-centered work can help when someone needs support sorting values, relationships, or identity questions.He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT-style tools are often useful for stress, anxiety, sleep problems, and mood symptoms because they focus on clear steps and skills to practice between sessions. Solution-focused ideas are used when people want short-term, goal-oriented work that highlights small changes that make a difference.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Vernon works collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person's goals, needs, and comfort level. He will discuss options and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during busy days. Chat or text messaging can fit brief check-ins, shorter sessions, or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Washington
- Languages
- English
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