Ramona Hickey

Ramona Hickey is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with seven years of clinical experience. She offers calm, practical support for people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and eating and body image concerns. Ramona brings a compassionate, values-minded perspective to sessions and includes spiritual reflection when clients want that as part of care.

She emphasizes steady, respectful work rather than quick fixes. Sessions focus on noticing patterns, building emotional awareness, and learning concrete skills to manage hard moments. Ramona helps clients set goals that match their values and life priorities and checks in on progress as therapy moves forward.

Her approach mixes several evidence-informed methods to match a person’s needs. That can mean learning to notice thoughts and try different actions, practicing strategies to calm intense feelings, or using mindfulness to steady attention. When faith matters to a client, spiritual reflection can be woven into therapeutic conversations.

Ramona often helps people with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, addiction-related coping, career stress, compassion fatigue, and challenges tied to family of origin. She also supports issues linked to abandonment, attachment, codependency, and commitment concerns.

Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit each person. Ramona aims to create a clear plan with practical steps clients can use between meetings while offering steady encouragement and challenge when growth calls for it.

How her approaches guide online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and then take actions that line up with those values. It is useful when stress, depression, or eating concerns make it hard to move toward the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and experimenting with different ways of thinking and acting to reduce distress and change behavior. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person’s own goals and pace lead the work.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ramona will talk through goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. She collaborates with each person to pick strategies that suit their needs and adjusts plans as progress is made.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the specific session formats before booking. Many people find remote work helps fit therapy into a busy life because it can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a workday, or make it easier to join from a familiar setting. Online meetings can support the same goal-focused skill work used in ACT and CBT, including learning new coping steps, practicing mindful awareness, and tracking progress between sessions. Licensed professionals tailor the pace and tools to match each person’s routine and responsibilities.