About Virginia
Dr. Virginia Clark is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 40 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and ADHD. She offers calm, practical guidance for people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or burned out.
Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping clients regain a sense of control and clearer thinking. She uses a mix of methods to match each person’s needs. That can include cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice thoughts without getting driven by them. Attachment-based work informs how she looks at relationship patterns and emotional safety in close connections. Emotionally-focused ideas help when strong feelings have pushed people apart or made daily life harder.
Dialectical behavior skills are used when managing intense emotions or improving coping skills. Dr. Clark brings decades of clinical experience to each session.
She practices in Florida and works in English. Her approach is practical and goal-oriented, with attention to how emotional health affects day-to-day functioning like sleep, work, and relationships. Sessions can include short-term plans for a specific problem or longer work for deeper patterns.
She encourages clients to set clear goals and learn tools they can use between sessions. The aim is steady progress and more usable choices in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Clark commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. ACT helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings while taking actions that match their values, which can be useful for chronic worry, low motivation, or ADHD-related challenges.She also draws on attachment-based ideas when relationship patterns or past hurts affect current functioning. That approach looks at how early connection styles shape reactions today and helps people try new ways of relating. Choosing the best mix of methods is a collaborative process - the therapist and client review goals and try approaches that fit the person’s needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports shorter ongoing touchpoints. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping a steady course of care.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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