Virginia Fick, HCPC

Virginia Fick is a counselling psychologist registered with the HCPC, the Health and Care Professions Council in the United Kingdom. She completed graduate training in the United States, earning an MA in Counseling - Clinical Mental Health and an MS in Psychology, before relocating to the UK to work within the NHS in 2022.

Her professional background spans nonprofit services, private practice, and community mental health clinics, giving her experience in a variety of care settings. Over three years she has supported people navigating relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related concerns, along with work on motivation, self esteem, and confidence.

Virginia frames therapy around each person’s expertise in their own experience and looks for existing strengths that can be drawn on to meet life’s difficulties. She approaches the first step of reaching out with encouragement, acknowledging the courage involved in beginning therapy and offering practical, person-focused support to help clients move forward.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Virginia draws on client-centered therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client’s perspective guides the work. This approach focuses on listening, empathy, and collaboration to help with relationship difficulties, self esteem, and confidence issues.

She also integrates Trauma-Focused Therapy when past harm is central to a person’s distress. This approach helps process traumatic experiences and develop coping strategies for symptoms such as intrusive memories or post-traumatic stress reactions.

Finding the best approach is part of the therapeutic process and is addressed collaboratively. Virginia works with each client to identify goals, preferences, and immediate needs, then tailors methods so therapy fits the individual rather than forcing a single model.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility for this kind of collaborative work. Video calls allow for face-to-face interaction when preferred, phone sessions provide an accessible alternative, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter, more frequent check-ins or those who communicate better in writing. These options help make therapy more manageable around daily life and can increase consistency and follow-through with therapy goals.