Dixie Eppolito, LMHC

Dixie Eppolito is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She centers her work on trauma and addiction recovery, along with stress and anxiety. Dixie emphasizes practical steps clients can use right away and believes people bring strengths they can build on.

Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She listens for what matters most to the person in front of her and tailors sessions to those goals. Dixie supports people who are coping with compassion fatigue and difficult life transitions, helping them find ways to manage day-to-day demands.

With ten years of experience, she draws on a mix of therapy methods to fit each situation. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to address thoughts and behaviors. She also works with attachment-based and client-centered approaches to strengthen relationships and emotional safety.

Dixie helps people facing a wide range of concerns including addictions, post-traumatic stress, mood disorders, and problems with sleep, eating, or impulse control. She also addresses issues such as codependency, veteran and first responder stress, and problems that co-occur with neurodiversity like autism and Asperger syndrome.

Their sessions are practical and task-focused when needed, and exploratory when a person wants to understand deeper patterns. Dixie encourages small, measurable changes and supports clients as they build coping skills. To begin, she asks about current needs and works with each person to plan realistic next steps.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships affect feelings and reactions. Online sessions using this frame aim to help people notice relational patterns and practice new ways of connecting and responding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into manageable steps. In remote sessions CBT can be used to build concrete skills such as sleep routines, thought records, and behavior experiments that fit into daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will listen to goals and needs and then recommend which methods to try first. This is a collaborative decision, and adjustments are made over time based on what helps most.

The practice supports working online to make therapy easier to fit into busy schedules. Online therapy can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins on a work break, or make it simpler to follow a skill-building plan between sessions. Because specific session formats were not listed in the biography, confirm available online formats before booking so you know whether phone, video, or other options are offered.