About Virginia
Virginia Hagen, LMHC, offers calm, steady care to people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, or life changes. She draws on 35 years of clinical experience and a long background in nursing to help clients find clearer ways to cope and move forward. She uses straightforward conversation and practical tools in sessions.
She listens first, then helps people try new ways of thinking and acting that reduce distress. Sessions can include skill building for emotion regulation, communication, and managing daily routines that affect sleep, eating, and attention.
Background and approach
Her clinical background includes many years working in mental health settings and a decade in independent practice in Crystal River, Florida. She also spent extensive time supporting children with special needs and people connected to custody matters, and she has experience with ADHD-related concerns.
Virginia retired from nursing after 50 years and completed pastoral education and a Certificate in Christian Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in 2019. She aims for a nonjudgmental space where feelings and worries can be shared openly. Therapy blends client-centered listening with approaches that address thinking patterns and emotions.
The goal is to teach skills people can keep using after active therapy ends. Virginia offers sessions in English and provides several online formats. Getting started is a step-by-step process that begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
How her therapeutic approaches fit into online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and trust. In sessions she helps people notice patterns in close connections and try new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and conflict.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. She uses CBT techniques to help people test unhelpful thoughts, build routines, and manage symptoms like low mood, worry, or sleep problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try an approach, and adjust based on how it feels and what produces change. This collaborative process helps match strategies to what each person needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief updates, skill practice between sessions, or ongoing coaching over time.
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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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