About Virginia
Virginia Dickinson is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, honest therapy. She uses straightforward methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship strain. Her style is warm and interactive and aimed at finding workable steps forward.
She leans on client-centered work that starts with the person in front of her. That means listening first, then helping people name what matters and what gets in the way.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try small changes that can reduce anxiety or lift mood. Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to help with sleep, anger, and coping with chronic pain or illness. Solution-focused conversations are common when someone needs clear next steps for parenting, career decisions, or managing addiction.
Motivational interviewing can help when someone feels stuck or uncertain about change. Virginia trained and practiced across counseling, education, the arts, and management before focusing on clinical social work. She has nine years of experience and holds LCSW and CSW credentials in Colorado and Wisconsin.
This background shapes a flexible, down-to-earth way of working. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented. People leave with practical strategies they can try between meetings.
Virginia supports work on grief, intimacy issues, self-esteem, communication problems, and life transitions. She offers various online session formats to fit different schedules. Work in short steps, try new coping skills, and adjust the plan as needed to find what helps most.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and helping people find their own answers. Online sessions offer the same focus on what matters most to the individual, with the therapist guiding conversations and reflecting what is important.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice thoughts and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or lift mood. In online work this often means setting short homework tasks, tracking moods between sessions, and reviewing results together in video or messaging formats.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to manage stress, sleep problems, and chronic pain. These practices can be guided over video or reinforced through text-based reminders and short audio prompts sent between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk about options, try methods that fit the client’s goals, and adjust plans based on what helps most. Clients are invited to give feedback so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and guided exercises, phone can fit a quick check-in, live chat works for shorter exchanges, and messaging is handy for ongoing support and brief tasks. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping progress steady.
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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