Vernon Wiggins
Direct, goal-focused therapy with practical tools
- Credentials
- LPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Vernon
Vernon Wiggins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who takes a direct, practical approach to therapy. He focuses on clear goals and honest conversation while building a respectful working relationship. Vernon summarizes what needs attention and helps people take steps to address it.
He uses straightforward talk rather than long explanations. He draws on client-centered work that keeps each person's values central. He also uses cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques and solution-focused steps are part of his toolbox when they fit the problem. Vernon has 11 years of experience in mental health. He has supported people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, and compassion fatigue.
He also works with concerns around identity, addictions, intimacy, and sleep problems. Parenting and family issues are included among his focus areas. He addresses communication problems, blended family concerns, codependency, and other relationship stresses in direct, actionable ways.
He can help sort priorities and plan next steps. Sessions are offered in English and are provided from Texas. Vernon accepts video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Fees vary with location and a subscription model is used that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to availability.
How Vernon’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person and their goals; the therapist listens closely and responds to what matters most to the client, which helps with identity, self-esteem, and life decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses clear exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve sleep and focus.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Vernon will talk with each person about their needs and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. He mixes techniques as needed and checks in to see what is helping and what should change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people connect face to face from home, phone sessions work for those on the go, and live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into busy family and work lives and to keep progress moving forward.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Washington
- Languages
- English
Next step
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