Rima Mickus

Rima Mickus is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 17 years of experience. She practices in Illinois and focuses on adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, sleep trouble, and life changes including career and parenting concerns.

Rima helps people who feel stuck after a breakup, a job change, or a family shift. She talks through relationship patterns, communication problems, and issues that come from family of origin. She also addresses grief, trauma, and mood concerns in straightforward sessions.

Her approach blends practical, evidence-based methods. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take small steps toward them. She also incorporates mindfulness skills to reduce reactivity and build focus.

Rima gives focused help for sleep problems using CBT-I, a structured program with sleep logs and concrete steps to improve sleep. For trauma and abuse she includes EMDR among her tools when appropriate. She also brings coaching skills for wellness, weight management, and building routines that support mood and energy.

Sessions are active and require participation between meetings. Messaging contact is used regularly as part of care. She works with adult clients to outline clear goals and practical homework, and she reviews progress as part of treatment planning.

How her approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It uses short exercises and practical commitments that can be reviewed between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, behaviors, and routines that keep problems going. It uses simple experiments and homework such as tracking thoughts or changing a daily habit to shift mood and functioning. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that works with disturbing memories; when it is used, sessions include structured processing and pacing to match the client's needs.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with the client about goals, past experiences with therapy, and personal preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them over time based on what helps.

Confirm the session formats before booking since specific online options are not listed in the profile. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a weekday lunch break or to keep appointments without travel. It also supports shorter check-ins or messaging between meetings, which she uses as part of active collaborative care.