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Dixie Eppolito

Therapist · Florida

Compassionate counselor blending listening and skills

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Dixie Eppolito
Credentials
LMHC
License
LMHC, Florida · MH16442
NPI
1114676368
Experience
10 years
Languages
English
Location
Florida
  • Strengths focused
  • Practical skills
  • Collaborative care

About Dixie

Dixie Eppolito is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who draws on a mix of practical therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and trauma. She uses plain talk and steady support to help clients take the first steps toward a more manageable life. Dixie emphasizes each person's strengths and works alongside them rather than directing from above.

Her approach blends attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral tools. In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try small changes, and build skills for daily life. She also uses techniques from dialectical behavior therapy and Jungian perspectives when they fit the person's goals.

Dixie has around ten years of professional experience in behavioral health work. That background includes supporting people facing compassion fatigue, grief, mood disorders, and a range of addiction and impulse concerns. She also helps with intimacy issues, self esteem, sleep and eating struggles, and major life transitions.

People can expect a collaborative style that values their story and choices. Dixie frames therapy as a teamwork process where the client sets goals and she offers tools and feedback. She accepts international clients and offers services from Florida as a Florida licensed mental health counselor, LMHC.

To begin, readers are encouraged to follow the site’s Start Therapy process to provide a short questionnaire and schedule a meeting. Dixie points out that making contact is the brave first step toward change.

How Dixie's Approaches Work Online

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in relationships and how early connections shape current reactions; it can help people who struggle with trust, closeness, or recurring relationship fears. Client-centered therapy centers on listening and empathy, giving people space to tell their story while the therapist reflects and supports their choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions by teaching simple skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.

Dixie treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their concerns, goals, and day-to-day life, and together they decide which methods to try. That teamwork helps tailor sessions to what actually helps the person make progress.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know how meetings will be held. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow quick check-ins during a work break or between appointments. Some people prefer audio-only visits when bandwidth is limited or video feels tiring. Licensed professionals, including Dixie, can adapt tools like CBT worksheets, DBT skills coaching, and attachment-focused conversation to an online setting so sessions focus on concrete steps you can use outside of therapy.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Also works with

LGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCoping with life changesCoachingADHD

Additional focus areas

Autism and Asperger SyndromeCo-morbidityCodependencyControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDrug and alcohol addictionFirst responder issuesImpulsivityMen's issuesVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMood disordersObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Self-harmSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaTraumatic brain injury

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Jungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingSolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

10+ years

Credentials

Florida

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Dixie help with?

She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, mood disorders, and related challenges listed on her profile.

What is her therapy style like?

Her style is collaborative and client-centered. Dixie listens first, helps identify patterns, and offers practical tools like CBT and DBT skills when useful.

How much experience does she have?

Dixie has about ten years of professional experience working in behavioral health and related settings.

What are her credentials and location?

She is a Florida licensed mental health counselor, LMHC, and practices from Florida.

In which languages can I meet with her?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the U.S. work with her?

She accepts international clients; confirm any cross-border details before scheduling.

How are sessions priced?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I start a first session?

Use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.

Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

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