She is best known for being a psychotherapist in California[1][2][3][4] and appearing as a featured guest on Tri-Valley Community Television (TV30) where she provides self-help advice on topics such as mindfulness, work-family balance, marital happiness, compassion, trauma recovery, and more.

[8] In 2004, after obtaining her California license to practice as a clinical psychologist,[13] Dickson worked for Wells Fargo Corporate Headquarters in San Francisco.

[15] Dickson left the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in 2011 and went on to open her own private practice in Pleasanton where she helps pre-teens, teenagers, and adults.

[citation needed] Currently, Dickson is a psychotherapist who works online and in person providing individual therapy, couples counseling, and executive coaching.

[15] Dickson's doctoral dissertation entitled, "Antecedents and Consequences of Perceived Family Responsibilities Discrimination in the Workplace" completed in 2003 was published in a special work-life edition of the Psychologist Manager Journal in 2008.

[18][19] Dickson's research revealed how employee perceptions of discrimination based on their family responsibilities (childcare, eldercare, or the care of an ill spouse or relative) had negative outcomes for the companies bottom-line.

[21] Dickson wrote about how Employee Assistance Programs can help employers mitigate the risk of Family Responsibilities Discrimination (FRD) at work.

When she was 9 years old, her neighbors and close family friends who also attended the Middlesex Bible Chapel were murdered when an explosive gasoline fueled pipe bomb, disguised as a package was delivered to their home and detonated.

[26][27][28][29] For several months following the bombing, Dickson and her family were under FBI protection due to safety concerns and their home phone was wiretapped for 3 years.