About Gina
Gina Dickison helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss, relationship strain, or life transitions. She is Gina Dickison, LCPC, and she offers direct, goal-focused support for everyday problems and bigger turning points. Her style is warm and straightforward.
She works to set clear goals and practical steps with each person she meets. With more than two decades of clinical experience, she draws on several evidence-based tools. Gina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills.
Background and approach
She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused work shape how she supports meaning, values, and close relationships. Her background includes helping people facing addiction, grief, trauma, parenting questions, and career stress.
Gina has experience with adoption and foster care concerns, abandonment issues, codependency, and caregiver strain. She also supports people dealing with body image, eating concerns, and reactions after natural or human-caused disasters. Sessions blend a directive, solution-oriented approach with a compassionate tone.
Together clients set goals, try practical strategies, and track progress. Gina aims to be responsive and works to coordinate scheduling that fits into daily life. She practices in Illinois and sees clients in English only.
Gina brings steady, experienced support for people ready to make concrete changes.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps you clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on accepting difficult feelings while committing to actions that match your goals, which can help with anxiety, grief, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for depression, anxiety, stress, and coping with change. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skill training in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness for strong emotions and conflict.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels helpful. Clients and the therapist work together to choose which methods will fit the situation and the person's preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and observing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited and for quick check-ins. Live chat or text messaging can fit brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or people who prefer writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a workday, handle caregiving schedules, or keep therapy consistent during life transitions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English