About Virginia
Virginia Hagen greets people with a calm, direct approach. She is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 35 years of professional experience. She aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
She helps people facing depression, anxiety, stress, grief, eating concerns, addictions, and relationship or intimacy problems. She also supports those handling parenting challenges, caregiving strain, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career strain, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with people affected by ADHD and a range of family and custody issues. Before focusing on counseling, she spent many years as a registered nurse and worked across inpatient and outpatient mental health settings. She also ran a independent practice in Crystal River, Florida, and has experience testifying in custody matters on behalf of children.
In later years she pursued Christian studies and served as a hospital chaplain intern during Clinical Pastoral Education. In sessions she creates an open, nonjudgmental space for people to share thoughts and feelings. She draws on attachment-focused ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive tools, and emotion-focused work where those approaches fit the person.
Skills and practical resources are emphasized so people can use them between sessions. Her style is collaborative and grounded in many years of varied clinical experience. She encourages steady steps forward and supports clients as they learn new ways to cope and reconnect with their values.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice and change ways of relating that get in the way. It can be useful for people struggling with connection, trust, abandonment issues, or repeated conflict. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening carefully and reflecting what someone is feeling so they feel heard and can begin to sort things out. This approach suits people who want a steady, nonjudgmental space to talk through problems and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical exercises to shift them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to try, adjust techniques over time, and set goals that match the client's needs and preferences. The process is conversational and practical, with room to test what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video lets people work face to face when a longer conversation is helpful. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins, skill coaching between calls, or steps toward starting therapy without scheduling a full session.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English