- Years in practice
- 22
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Grief
About Gina
Gina Dickison is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 22 years of experience who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, relationship strain, and grief. She presents a calm, direct style and aims to help parents and individuals find practical steps forward. Gina works in Illinois and offers sessions in English.
She draws on a mix of approaches to meet real-life needs. Gina uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused ideas when those fit the situation. In sessions, Gina tends to be warm but focused. She helps clients set clear goals and builds step-by-step action plans.
Conversations often include skill practice, problem-solving, and planning for everyday situations like managing parenting stress or coping with major life changes. Her background includes work in workplace settings on communication, conflict, work-life balance, and career coaching. She has long experience addressing addiction, trauma, grief, adoption and foster care, and caregiver stress.
This mix gives practical tools alongside attention to attachment and loss. Gina offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Costs vary with location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to availability.
What Gina works with
Everything Gina lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Gina helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Gina lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Gina’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Gina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify and change unhelpful thought patterns that feed anxiety, depression, and parenting stress. CBT sessions often focus on small experiments and practical homework that fit into daily family life.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at how early relationships shape current connections and parenting patterns. This approach can help people understand repeated relationship dynamics and build different ways of relating to loved ones.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gina collaborates with each person to choose which methods match their goals and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions can be a good shorter option when bandwidth or time is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options aim to give flexible ways to practice skills and stay connected to the therapeutic plan.
Questions people ask about Gina
What kinds of concerns does Gina work with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, relationship problems, grief, addiction, trauma and related issues listed in her specialties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is warm and compassionate while remaining directive and solution focused, using practical skills and goal setting in sessions.
What is her professional background and experience?
Gina has 22 years of clinical experience and has worked with workplace programs on communication, conflict, work-life balance, and career coaching.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is an IL LCPC, practicing in Illinois.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with Gina?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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