About Vanessa
Vanessa Van Dyke is a licensed professional counselor with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, trauma-related symptoms, and stresses tied to identity and caregiving. Vanessa makes space for honest conversation and practical problem solving.
She often supports people working through shame, body image concerns, and challenges tied to sexuality and LGBT issues. Compassion fatigue and burnout are also common topics she helps clients address.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to be a place to talk without judgment and to try tools that fit everyday life. Vanessa takes a straightforward, empathetic approach. She and the client decide together which steps make sense next.
That could include talking through painful memories, practicing ways to ease anxiety, or testing different coping strategies between sessions. Her work reflects many years of helping people sort through relationship wounds such as abandonment, attachment struggles, or family of origin pain. She also helps with practical life problems like money stress, commitment worries, and the fallout from divorce or separation.
Vanessa is licensed as an LPC in Colorado and Arizona and works in Colorado. She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions. If someone is ready to try therapy, she supports the first steps and ongoing momentum toward clearer goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Vanessa uses evidence-based techniques to help people manage symptoms and build skills. One common approach focuses on understanding and changing patterns that keep anxiety and low mood active, using practical exercises to test new ways of thinking and acting. This helps with day-to-day worry, mood shifts, and decision-making struggles.She also works with trauma-related symptoms by helping people safely process difficult memories and build coping skills for strong emotions and triggers. That approach aims to reduce distress and increase a sense of control after painful experiences.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Vanessa will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they choose techniques and pace so the work feels manageable and relevant.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow more face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit brief check-ins or moments when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care while balancing work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Arizona
- Languages
- English