Gina Dickison, LCPC

Gina Dickison is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who brings 22 years of experience to sessions. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, addictions, relationship concerns, grief, and parenting strains. She uses a warm, compassionate style and focuses on practical steps people can try between visits.

Gina draws on several well-known therapy methods including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She describes her approach as directive and solution-focused, which means she helps people set clear goals and develops action plans to reach them. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and attachment-based ideas when those fit a person’s needs.

Her background includes workplace counseling, career coaching, and employee assistance program work, so she is familiar with communication and conflict at work. She has worked with grief, adoption and foster care questions, trauma, and addiction-related concerns. Gina often helps people manage compassion fatigue and caregiver stress as well.

Sessions aim to identify patterns that get in the way and to teach coping skills that are easy to practice. Gina says she partners with clients to track progress and adjust plans as needed. She checks messages regularly and tries to make scheduling flexible.

Gina practices in Illinois and conducts work in English. If you want to explore whether she is a good fit, use the site continue button on this profile to begin the matching process and schedule a session.

How Gina’s approaches translate to online work

Gina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on small experiments and skills people can practice between sessions. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills when emotion regulation or distress tolerance is needed; those are straightforward skills for managing strong feelings and reducing impulsive reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gina treats the choice of methods as a collaborative decision based on a person’s goals, day-to-day routine, and what feels most helpful. She will check in and adjust the plan as progress is made or needs change.

Confirm the session formats she currently offers before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, cut out travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make using certain skills homework easier, since people can try them in their usual settings and then talk about what happened in session. Licensed professionals adapt methods so therapeutic work stays practical and focused, whether sessions are remote or in person.