About Rima
Rima Mickus greets people with a practical, straightforward approach to common life challenges. She is a licensed counselor with LCPC and LPC credentials and focuses on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, sleep problems, and major life changes. Her style is active and collaborative, with clear expectations about communication and participation.
Rima has 17 years of counseling experience and works from Illinois. She uses plain language in sessions and aims to make therapy feel like a useful conversation rather than a lecture.
Background and approach
She helps people identify patterns that interfere with daily life and tries to offer tools they can use between meetings. Her background includes work on insomnia and non-drug sleep strategies, relationship concerns, and trauma-related issues. She incorporates techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches, mindfulness, and acceptance-based methods.
EMDR is also listed among her approaches for processing traumatic memories. In practical terms Rima asks for active engagement from clients. Messaging between sessions is part of how she stays in touch, and she checks messages at least twice a day with core hours Monday through Friday.
She describes therapy as an active process that often requires homework, tracking, or short exercises to get the most benefit. Rima helps people address parenting stress, grief, career worries, and workplace problems in addition to mood and self-esteem concerns. Her aim is to help clients build clearer communication, better sleep, and steadier daily functioning.
She holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and maintains licensure as an IL LCPC and AZ LPC. Sessions are offered in English and she works with Illinois residents through the formats listed on the profile.
Approaches that fit online work and daily life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful when someone is stuck in worry or avoidance and wants clearer priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, such as insomnia or anxiety, by using structured exercises and practice between sessions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method some therapists use to help process traumatic memories so they feel less overwhelming; it is typically used when trauma or abuse is part of the concern.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and what feels manageable, then recommend approaches that match those needs. That decision is collaborative and can shift over time as progress is made or new issues arise.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face discussion when visual cues help, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, and messaging or live chat can support quick check-ins or ongoing encouragement between meetings. These options make it easier to keep momentum, complete homework, and stay connected to a licensed professional without extra travel.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Arizona
- Languages
- English