Virginia Hagen, LMHC
Experienced, steady counselor for life changes
Details
| Name | Virginia Hagen |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LMHC |
| Based in | Florida |
| Licensed in | Florida |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 35 |
About Virginia
Virginia Hagen is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 35 years of professional experience. She greets people with a calm, straightforward manner and helps them talk through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. She also supports people facing eating struggles, addiction, parenting strains, and issues with self-esteem or intimacy.
Before focusing on counseling, she spent many years as a registered nurse and worked across mental health settings including inpatient and outpatient care.
Background and approach
Virginia ran a independent practice in Crystal River, Florida for ten years and has experience addressing custody concerns and special needs. She also completed clinical pastoral education and holds a Certificate in Christian Studies from Asbury Theological Seminary. Virginia draws on Narrative approaches alongside attachment-focused and client-centered work.
She aims to help people reframe painful stories about themselves and their relationships so they can notice different possibilities. Sessions also include practical skills from cognitive and behavioral methods when helpful. Her style is collaborative and nonjudgmental.
She encourages people to name patterns that cause pain and then try small, manageable changes. She also uses supportive coaching to build skills people can keep using after sessions end. People who prefer a values-informed practice may find her background in Christian counseling and pastoral experience relevant.
She combines life experience with clinical work to offer steady, practical guidance for coping with life changes and ongoing challenges.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Family conflicts, Grief among the things Virginia works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Virginia among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Virginia among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Virginia among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Virginia among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Virginia among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Virginia among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Virginia among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Virginia among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Virginia among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Virginia among the ways she works.
- Internal Family Systems: Listed by Virginia among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Virginia directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Virginia directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Virginia often uses Narrative Therapy to help people tell and retell the stories that shape their lives. This approach focuses on separating a person from painful problems and finding alternative, more helpful narratives for relationships, identity, and behavior.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at patterns between people that lead to hurt or distance. That work helps people notice how early bonds influence reactions and then practice different ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy is another cornerstone of her work and keeps the focus on the person's own goals, pace, and values during sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will listen to your concerns and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. That decision is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video lets you see nonverbal cues, phone can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options let people connect from different places, match session length to a busy day, and keep continuity when schedules change.
Common questions about this listing
What concerns does she help people with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, eating issues, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, self-esteem problems, bipolar and many life-change challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses a collaborative, nonjudgmental style that combines Narrative ideas with attachment-focused and client-centered work. Practical CBT and DBT skills are added when useful.
How much experience does she bring?
She has 35 years of professional experience, including long work in mental health settings and a decade in independent practice.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is a Florida licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - and practices from Florida.
Which languages are supported and are international clients seen?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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