About Skip
Skip Dettman is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and grief. She offers straightforward support for common struggles like low self-esteem, relationship problems, and parenting concerns. Her tone is warm and direct, aimed at people who want clear steps and honest conversation.
Skip focuses on real-life problems rather than jargon. Sessions often begin with a short check-in about what’s most pressing that week.
Background and approach
From there she works with clients to build coping skills, clarify goals, and try small changes that fit daily life. Her background includes 13 years of clinical experience and practice in Illinois as an LCSW. That experience informs practical ways to manage strong emotions and reduce symptoms that get in the way of day-to-day functioning.
She uses several approaches to match what a person needs in the moment. In sessions she listens closely and adapts methods to each person’s pace. For people recovering from trauma, she offers careful, paced work to reduce distress.
For those dealing with addiction or mood problems, she focuses on strategies that support safer choices and steadier moods. Clients can expect straightforward feedback, skill-building, and a focus on solving the problems that matter now. The aim is to increase coping, improve relationships, and help people regain confidence in handling life’s demands.
Approach and online care that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building a respectful, nonjudgmental working relationship. It helps people who need a supportive space to sort through feelings and figure out next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches skills to change patterns that increase anxiety or depression; it is useful for stress, mood problems, and addiction-related behaviors. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, is a structured method to reduce distress tied to traumatic memories and to help people feel less overwhelmed by past events.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most comfortable. Together they choose or blend methods and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and paced to the person's needs.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so sessions can fit into busy lives. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone can be an easier option when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can serve as brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible and accessible for people balancing work, family, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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