Christine Dicus , LCSW

Christine Dicus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Missouri with six years of clinical experience. She earned her degree from the University of Missouri St. Louis and brings a strengths-based perspective combined with cognitive behavioral strategies to help clients address a wide range of concerns. Her approach emphasizes collaboration - working as a team with each individual to create tailored plans rather than using a one-size-fits-all model.

Christine has worked across diverse settings, including residential facilities, prison and jail environments, and traditional office settings, which has informed a flexible, out-of-the-box problem-solving style. She has direct experience supporting people facing trauma, anxiety, depression, and addictions, as well as children and families navigating separations and related stressors. Additional areas of focus include relationship challenges, grief, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, first responder issues, and process or sex addictions.

She offers messaging, live chat, and phone sessions, and also provides video call options. Christine aims to find a schedule that supports self-care and often begins with weekly meetings to build a plan for addressing concerns. She checks messages once a day and typically responds within 24 hours.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting the client's own goals; it helps people feel heard and fosters self-directed growth when navigating life changes, relationships, and self-esteem challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical strategies to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and problematic habits through skill-building and structured exercises. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented style that helps people find and strengthen their own motivation to change, often used for addictions, ambivalence about change, and behavior shifts.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Christine works collaboratively with clients to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques over time to ensure the best possible fit. Licensed professionals and therapists often combine these approaches to tailor care to each person.

Online therapy delivers flexibility by letting clients connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, access care from different locations, and maintain continuity of support when life circumstances change.