Gillian Van Dien, LPC

Gillian Van Dien is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin with 17 years of experience supporting people through complex emotional and life transitions. She offers compassionate, whole-person care that honors each client’s history and strengths while addressing immediate concerns such as depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, and trauma.

Her work emphasizes building self-compassion and self-worth, improving communication, and guiding clients through practical changes that lead to healthier patterns. Gillian partners with adults and teenagers, women navigating personal and cultural challenges, young adults, and those facing midlife transitions to reduce stress, manage anxiety, and resolve depressive symptoms. She creates a space where difficult feelings can be explored and where healing from past experiences is encouraged.

Gillian helps clients identify and change unhelpful patterns, develop resilience, and reconnect with a sense of purpose. She approaches therapy as a collaborative process, believing people have inner resources that can be cultivated and strengthened. Whether addressing social anxiety, workplace stress, relationship dynamics, or questions of identity, Gillian offers steady professional guidance and empathetic support to walk alongside clients as they pursue meaningful change.

Approaches to Healing Remotely with Proven Therapeutic Models

Gillian Van Dien draws on approaches that focus on values, connection, and emotional patterns to help clients move forward. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify personal values and take committed steps toward them while learning simple skills to relate differently to painful thoughts and feelings - it can be especially helpful for anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns, helping clients understand and reshape how they connect with others to improve intimacy and reduce relationship distress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) targets the emotional cycles that maintain conflict or disconnection in relationships, guiding partners or individuals to access underlying feelings and create new ways of bonding and responding to one another.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Gillian collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adapting techniques over time as progress unfolds. This collaborative stance helps ensure therapy feels relevant and useful.

Online therapy with Gillian is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility for busy schedules, varied comfort levels, and geographic constraints. These options make it possible to receive consistent support without rearranging life around appointments, while still working with licensed professionals who guide therapy toward meaningful change.