About Skip
Skip Dettman is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship concerns, and other life challenges.
Background and approach
She works from an inclusive, empathetic stance and seeks to meet each person where they are while supporting clearer self-understanding and practical coping skills. Her practice addresses a broad set of concerns including trauma and abuse, depression, self-esteem struggles, parenting and fatherhood issues, substance use problems, and LGBT-related matters.
Additional focus areas include abandonment, codependency, dissociation, domestic violence, and personality-related concerns among others. Skip blends multiple therapeutic approaches to tailor care to a client’s needs rather than relying on a single method.
Clients can expect a collaborative style that emphasizes empowerment and resilience. She integrates evidence-informed techniques to address immediate symptoms as well as deeper life patterns, and she aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space for exploration and growth.
Skip practices in Illinois as an LCSW and conducts sessions in English.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Skip integrates client-centered therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) into online work. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathic listening and collaboration so clients can explore their priorities and build self-awareness; it is often helpful for stress, self-esteem, and relationship concerns. EMDR focuses on processing distressing memories through guided protocols to reduce the intensity of traumatic symptoms and related distress, and it can be used when past events interfere with daily functioning.The therapist also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy when targeting patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to anxiety or mood difficulties, using practical exercises to change unhelpful habits. Deciding which approach to use is a shared process: the therapist and client will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods as progress unfolds.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility to fit work and life demands. These formats make it easier to attend regular sessions from different locations, maintain continuity during transitions, and use the medium that best supports a client’s comfort and needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English