Ramona Hickey, LCPC
Illinois · 7 years in practice
Ramona Hickey is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with seven years of experience.
License and registration
- LCPC, Illinois
- 180017236 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1699440446 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 7
- Languages
- English
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About Ramona
Ramona Hickey is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with seven years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and issues around self-esteem. She also supports concerns related to addictions, sleeping and eating difficulties, parenting strain, and intimacy-related questions.
Ramona brings a compassionate, faith-informed perspective to sessions while centering each person's goals and values. She uses straightforward conversation and practical tools to help clients notice patterns and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions mix listening, gentle challenge, and step-by-step skill work. Her approach draws from Emotionally-Focused Therapy to explore emotions and attachment patterns. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify what matters and take value-driven actions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In practice, Ramona helps people address relationship communication, boundaries, codependency, and commitment worries. She supports work on body image, abandonment and family of origin issues, immigration-related stress, and compassion fatigue.
Her goal is to help clients build clearer goals, better emotional awareness, and practical coping strategies. Ramona emphasizes collaboration and steady progress rather than quick fixes. She invites clients to set realistic steps and tracks changes over time.
If someone wants to include spiritual reflection in therapy, she offers that option in a respectful way.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Ramona lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Ramona names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Ramona uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help clients notice and name strong feelings and attachment patterns that shape relationships. This work focuses on identifying emotions and practicing new ways to connect and respond during moments of distress.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify personal values and take meaningful action. ACT helps people accept difficult internal experiences while committing to steps that match what matters most to them.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ramona will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which mix of EFT, ACT, or CBT-style techniques to try and adjust methods as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexible access to those sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can fit into a short break or low-bandwidth situations, and chat or messaging support quick check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent care around work, school, and family schedules.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Ramona help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, addictions, ADHD, and many relationship and life-change issues.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is warm and collaborative with clear goals. Sessions combine listening, emotional exploration, and practical exercises.
How much experience does she have?
Ramona has seven years of professional experience as a clinician in Illinois.
What are her credentials and location?
She holds an Illinois LCPC credential and practices from Illinois.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does cost and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete the matching questionnaire, and schedule according to availability.
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