Virginia Dickinson
Calm, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW, CSW
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin, Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Virginia
Virginia Dickinson is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a supportive, interactive style to help people facing stressful life changes. She blends practical approaches with a respectful, down-to-earth presence. Sessions aim to be a place where clients can talk through problems and build small, doable steps forward.
She draws on client-centered methods to follow each person's pace and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify patterns of thinking that fuel anxiety, depression, or sleeping problems.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are used to reduce reactivity and improve focus in daily life. Over nine years of practice, Virginia has worked in counseling, education, the arts, and management. That varied background shapes a flexible style that adapts to what each person needs.
She uses solution-focused conversations to set clear, short-term goals and to recognize progress quickly. Common topics she addresses include stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, family and parenting matters, addiction, and coping with life transitions. Additional areas of attention include attachment issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and are provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Virginia is licensed in Colorado and holds the credentials LCSW and CSW. The practice emphasizes practical steps, collaboration, and steady progress.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, helping them name problems and set the pace for change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. It breaks problems into clear steps, teaches practical skills for anxiety, depression, sleep, and coping, and uses short homework between sessions.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust methods over time to match what works.
Online sessions make these approaches easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversations from home, while phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexible ways to check in. These options support ongoing work on stress, parenting concerns, relationships, grief, and everyday coping without requiring travel.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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