About Skip
Skip Dettman is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She works with individuals dealing with trauma, relationship strain, grief, and challenges around parenting. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking so clients can cope day to day.
Dettman uses plain language and a steady, respectful style. Conversations move at the client’s pace. She listens for what matters most and then helps people try new ways of responding to hard situations.
Background and approach
Goals are set together and measured in small, achievable steps. Her work draws on a mix of methods, including client-centered care, cognitive behavioral strategies, and trauma-focused tools. That mix lets her tailor sessions for issues like low self-esteem, substance use, dissociation, and the aftermath of abuse.
She also supports people wrestling with family of origin problems, blended family stress, and fatherhood concerns. With 13 years of clinical experience, Dettman brings practical know-how without jargon. She aims to make coping skills feel realistic and doable between sessions.
People often leave with specific tools to manage mood shifts, worry, and cravings. Dettman is licensed in Illinois as an LCSW. Sessions are offered in English and take place through a range of remote formats.
Prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire to begin and then schedule appointments based on therapist availability.
Evidence-informed approaches delivered online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a supportive relationship. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what matters, and helps people gain clarity about their values and choices. This approach is useful for low self-esteem, life transitions, and feeling stuck.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with practical experiments. It teaches concrete skills for worry, depression, and managing cravings. CBT sessions often include short exercises to try between meetings.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that works with memories and the body’s reactions to them. When appropriate, the therapist may use this to help reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and related distress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that fit the client’s goals, needs, and comfort level. Clients can shift direction as they learn what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit short check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life without long commutes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English