Ramona Hickey

Ramona Hickey, LCPC, is a licensed Illinois therapist with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self esteem, addictions, and coping with life changes. Her practice also addresses intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping concerns, parenting and fatherhood issues, career questions, and compassion fatigue. Additional areas she works with include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, body image, and family of origin themes.

Ramona employs an integrative, evidence-informed approach drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Mindfulness, Client-Centered methods, and Motivational Interviewing. In sessions she supports exploration of underlying patterns such as control issues, fear of commitment, isolation, and unresolved guilt or shame, while helping people identify values and practical steps forward. Her work includes addressing life transitions, divorce and separation, immigration-related stress, and questions of life purpose.

She practices in Illinois and conducts work in English. Ramona frames therapy as a collaborative process of building insight, increasing emotional awareness, and practicing new ways of responding to difficult situations. The focus is on clear goals and steady, stage-by-stage progress toward the changes a person wants to make.