About Virginia
Virginia Hagen is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 35 years of professional experience. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, eating concerns, addictions, and parenting or family strain. She also supports people with relationship and intimacy issues, sleep trouble, anger, low self-esteem, and career stress.
Virginia draws on a long career that began in nursing. She practiced as a registered nurse for 50 years and worked across in-patient and out-patient mental health settings.
Background and approach
She also ran a independent practice in Crystal River, Florida for a decade and worked extensively with children with special needs and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. She has experience with custody matters and has testified in court on behalf of children.
Later in her career she pursued faith-based studies, completing a Certificate in Christian Studies from Asbury Theological Seminary in 2019 and becoming ordained by the Federation of Christian Ministers the same year. She also completed a hospital chaplain internship as part of Clinical Pastoral Education at UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida.
In sessions she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through feelings and build skills they can use long term. Her work includes practical strategies drawn from approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-focused perspectives, and emotion-focused work. Virginia encourages realistic steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She welcomes people who are ready to explore change and offers multiple ways to connect, including video, phone, chat, and messaging. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she recognizes that starting care is itself an important move toward feeling better.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy centers on how early relationships shape current bonds and emotional patterns. It can help people understand hurtful relationship cycles and build more supported ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety, change unhelpful thinking, and improve daily functioning. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and process strong emotions and repair important relationship connections when feelings feel stuck.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That conversation guides which techniques are used and how sessions are paced, and the plan can be adjusted over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people work face to face when that helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing skills practice, or slower-paced communication between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- 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
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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