Ramona Hickey, LCPC

Ramona Hickey is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with seven years of experience. She focuses on helping people work through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports clients facing ADHD, addiction struggles, parenting strain, and issues around self-esteem and body image.

Ramona blends practical tools with a compassionate, person-centered stance. She uses approaches that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, learn emotional regulation skills, and clarify what matters most to them. When clients request it, she weaves spiritual reflection and Christian perspectives into therapy alongside clinical methods.

Her style is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions focus on clear goals, small steps, and skills that can be used between meetings. She aims to help people build emotional awareness, improve communication, and make choices that match their values.

Ramona’s background includes work with relationship stress, family of origin issues, abandonment and attachment concerns, and challenges such as codependency, commitment worries, and control issues. She pays attention to how past patterns show up now and helps clients try new ways of relating and coping.

Clients who come for coaching, career questions, or compassion fatigue can expect a mix of supportive conversation and targeted strategies. Her practice emphasizes steady progress. She partners with each person to set realistic goals and track change over time.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for depression, anxiety, and life changes where someone wants clearer direction. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting the person’s own capacity to grow; it aims to create a trusting relationship where clients can explore difficult topics. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and build new habits.

Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with the client to see which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process means trying ideas, adjusting when something does not help, and keeping what does.

For practical matters, confirm session formats before booking so you know what is available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and let people join from different locations without travel time. Therapists can use online work to teach coping skills, practice communication, and track progress between meetings, helping clients move toward clearer priorities and steadier coping.