About Virginia
Virginia Hagen is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 35 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, stress, grief, addictions, and a wide range of relationship and family concerns. She also supports clients dealing with eating issues, sleep problems, ADHD, and career or life transitions.
Hagen practiced as a registered nurse for five decades before retiring from clinical nursing. She has worked across inpatient and outpatient mental health settings, ran a independent practice in Crystal River, Florida, and spent time working with children with special needs and custody-related matters.
Background and approach
She also completed a Certificate in Christian Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary and was ordained by the Federation of Christian Ministers in 2019. In sessions she focuses on building an open, nonjudgmental space for people to share thoughts and feelings. She uses practical tools and exercises so clients can keep using the skills after therapy.
Her style blends client-centered listening with structured techniques to address patterns that cause distress. Her clinical approaches include attachment-based methods, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, and emotionally focused methods. These are used to help with emotional regulation, relationship issues, and coping strategies for daily life.
Virginia offers counseling online by video, phone, chat, or text messaging. Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. She works in English and is based in Florida.
How attachment and cognitive methods work online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current connection patterns. Online sessions use conversation and exercises to notice triggers and try new ways of relating that reduce fear and distance.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote sessions this often means setting small experiments or homework to practice new skills between meetings and tracking progress together.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and collaborate to decide which methods fit best. That plan can change as you learn what helps most.
Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video lets you see facial cues during deeper work, phone calls can be useful when bandwidth is limited, chat is good for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options offer flexibility for different needs and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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