About Virginia
Virginia Dickinson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on practical ways to ease anxiety and manage stress. She brings nine years of experience working with people facing grief, relationship strains, depression, and life changes. Her style is warm and interactive, with an emphasis on simple steps clients can use right away.
Virginia draws on client-centered methods that start with understanding each person's priorities. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and create concrete behavior changes.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are introduced to help calm the body and refocus attention in moments of overwhelm. Her background includes counseling, education, the arts, and management, which shape a flexible, down-to-earth approach. She aims to meet people where they are and build on existing strengths rather than starting from scratch.
Sessions often focus on short-term goals and clear, manageable plans. Practical concerns such as sleep problems, parenting strain, career stress, substance use, and intimacy issues are common topics. She also supports people dealing with trauma, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and difficult family dynamics.
Virginia explains tools plainly and works with clients to fit them into daily life. Therapy includes collaborative goal setting and regular check-ins to track progress. Her Colorado practice uses a mix of conversation, homework, and simple mindfulness exercises so skills stick between sessions.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Virginia often uses client-centered therapy to begin work by listening closely to a person's priorities and building plans around what matters most. That approach helps shape goals that feel realistic and relevant for everyday life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors through small, practical experiments; it is a good fit for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood struggles.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan together. If a strategy isn’t working, they shift to another method or combine tools so the work matches the person’s needs and preferences.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text sessions are useful for short check-ins, problem-solving between appointments, or when writing helps a person reflect. These options make it easier to maintain continuity while adapting therapy to daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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