About Vernon
Vernon Wiggins is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, based in Texas. He uses a clear, direct approach in sessions and focuses on identifying the issues that matter most to each person. Vernon aims to build a solid working relationship while keeping conversations practical and goal-focused.
He draws from client-centered work to keep sessions focused on the person's experience. Vernon also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
He includes mindfulness and solution-focused strategies when they fit the moment and the goal. Vernon has 11 years of experience in mental health and education settings. That experience has exposed him to a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, sexual identity concerns, addictions, and stress related to caregiving and work.
He also addresses relationship struggles, intimacy issues, parenting challenges, and problems with sleep and anger. In sessions he speaks plainly and gets to the heart of a problem. He will help a person set practical steps and track progress.
Vernon emphasizes respect for each person’s identity and choices while working toward realistic goals. People who choose his practice can expect straightforward feedback, practical tools, and support for rebuilding routines or managing big life changes. Vernon encourages trying different strategies until something fits the person's needs.
Using practical approaches online
Vernon commonly blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral ideas to guide online sessions. Client-centered Therapy means the conversation centers on the person's own experience, with the therapist listening closely and reflecting what matters most. This helps with concerns like identity, grief, and self-esteem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which is helpful for anxiety, depression, and anger.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Vernon will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit the person's needs, and adjust plans when something isn't helpful. The aim is to find practical steps that feel doable and lead to visible progress over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people have a fuller conversation and read facial cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep regular appointments around work, caregiving, or busy days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Washington
- Languages
- English