About Nanine
Nanine "Marie" Dickson is a licensed counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and related struggles. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions. Marie works from Texas and offers services as an LPC and LMHC.
Marie draws on more than a decade of clinical counseling experience. She believes many people already carry useful strengths and skills. Therapy often begins by looking at a person’s day-to-day choices and what gets in the way of change.
Background and approach
Her sessions emphasize clear, achievable goals. Clients talk through what matters most and pick small actions to try. Marie uses techniques that help people notice thoughts, test beliefs, and change unhelpful habits.
Mindfulness and connection are part of her approach. She pays attention to attachment patterns and how relationships shape feelings. That perspective can help with parenting strain, caregiver stress, and relationship communication.
Marie also uses solution-focused strategies to help people move forward quickly when they need concrete results. She combines that with cognitive tools to address mood, anxiety, and grief. The overall focus is practical - helping people find workable steps and build on what already works for them.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people connect now. It helps people notice patterns in close relationships and try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood difficulties because it breaks problems into clear, manageable steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Then she will suggest an approach or mix of methods and adjust as goals change, so therapy stays practical and aligned with needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people see facial cues and hold longer sessions. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching between sessions, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on real, usable steps.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Washington
- Languages
- English