Virginia Dickinson, LCSW, CSW

Virginia Dickinson is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of professional experience and a background that spans counseling, education, the arts, and management. She holds the credentials LCSW and CSW - LCSW stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker and CSW for Certified Social Worker - and has completed certificates in marriage and family therapy and grief counseling.

Her counseling style is supportive and interactive, grounded in humanistic principles and a collaborative client-centered orientation. She incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), solution-focused techniques, mindfulness strategies, and motivational interviewing, and also draws on ecopsychology in her work when appropriate. This blend of approaches is used to help people identify practical coping tools and build on existing strengths.

Dickinson addresses a wide range of concerns including stress and anxiety, relationship and family issues, grief and depression, coping with life changes, addictions, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related difficulties, sleep and parenting challenges, anger and self-esteem, and career matters. She also focuses on areas such as abandonment, attachment and commitment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, blended family dynamics, body image, and divorce and separation.

Her practice emphasizes helping clients recognize their own resources and develop actionable strategies to move toward greater balance and satisfaction in daily life.