About Dericka
Dericka Dotson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She speaks plainly and keeps sessions relaxed so people can focus on what matters most. Her style aims to build practical skills that fit each person’s life.
Dericka starts by asking about what’s worked before and how a person manages day-to-day. She listens for strengths and habits to build on. Early sessions feel conversational and low-pressure, with time spent understanding current routines and challenges.
Background and approach
Dericka uses a person-centered approach that centers the individual’s voice. She also draws on solution-focused ideas to identify small, concrete steps forward. Together these methods create short-term goals and everyday strategies you can try between sessions.
Her work pays attention to family tension, communication problems, grief, and caregiver stress, along with mood and panic symptoms. She supports people dealing with issues linked to adoption and foster care, prejudice and discrimination, and isolation or loneliness. Sessions aim to raise self-awareness and strengthen coping skills.
Dericka has five years of professional experience and practices in Virginia as an LCSW. People who prefer straightforward, goal-oriented conversation often find her approach useful. She helps clients translate strengths into practical changes and clearer daily routines.
Approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Dericka uses person-centered methods that focus on the individual's voice and values. This approach means sessions begin with your priorities and move at a pace you find comfortable. It helps when someone needs a therapist who listens and adapts to their goals.She also draws on solution-focused techniques to set small, achievable goals. These exercises focus on practical steps you can try between sessions, such as short coping strategies for panic attacks or ways to improve communication at home or work. That makes progress feel concrete and measurable.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Dericka will work with you to figure out which techniques match your needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts plans as you try things and give feedback.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you keep face-to-face conversation while staying in a familiar space. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins and flexibility for brief updates or coping reminders during the day. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English