About Dixie
Dixie Eppolito is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who uses practical therapy to help people move forward. She draws on ten years of experience to offer calm, steady support for stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and compassion fatigue. Dixie centers sessions on each person's strengths.
She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps them build on what already works. The tone of sessions is collaborative and respectful, with simple tools for day-to-day problems.
Background and approach
Her background includes a range of clinical settings across the last decade. Dixie has worked with people facing mood disorders, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and the fallout of trauma and abuse. She also addresses sleep and eating problems, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, and process addictions such as gambling or pornography.
In therapy she draws from attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns, client-centered methods to keep the work person-focused, and cognitive behavioral and dialectical skills to teach coping strategies. She may also bring in Jungian perspectives when dreams or deeper life themes are useful. Dixie offers flexible online formats and works with clients across Florida and beyond.
She aims to help people develop clearer choices, better coping skills, and steadier daily routines. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she provides steady guidance through that process.
How her therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape feelings and reactions now; online sessions use that lens to help people notice and change unhelpful patterns in current relationships. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the client feels understood and can pursue their goals; that approach fits well into video or phone conversations where the therapist follows the client's lead. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches practical skills to change thoughts and behaviors, often using short exercises and homework that are easy to share and track between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dixie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques so the work stays useful and relevant to day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a camera-free check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins, coaching moments, or timely coping reminders easier to fit into a busy week. These options help people maintain continuity and make steady progress without long commutes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English