Gina Dickison, LCPC

Gina Dickison is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 22 years of experience. She helps people who are managing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and addiction. She also supports those facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, career transitions, and the fallout from trauma and abuse.

Gina uses a practical, goal-oriented approach in sessions. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to help people spot unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors. Her style is warm and direct, and she works with clients to set clear, achievable steps.

Her background includes work with workplace issues like communication and conflict. She has experience with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, caregiving stress, and codependency. Gina has also helped people coping with cancer, body image struggles, and life changes such as divorce or separation.

Sessions emphasize skills you can use between meetings. That might look like practicing new communication habits, building emotional regulation tools, or creating a concrete plan to manage cravings or compulsive behaviors. She partners with people to track progress and adjust the plan as needed.

Gina sees clients in Illinois and offers sessions in English. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Her counseling uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

Practical approaches you can use online

Gina commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, then test new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on values and small actions people can take to move toward a meaningful life, even when difficult feelings remain.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gina works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they set small, measurable steps and adjust strategies as progress unfolds so the plan matches real life needs.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video allows face-to-face work and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps keep momentum between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work after a crisis or life change.