About Gina
Gina McKinney-Thompson is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 30 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, addiction, and trauma. Gina approaches each person with sensitivity and respect and adapts her support to what they need most.
Her style is practical and down-to-earth. She helps people talk through painful experiences and learn skills to manage strong emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions often include straightforward tools to cope with symptoms and to improve daily functioning. Gina also pays attention to relationship and family concerns when those issues affect a person’s wellbeing. Clients can expect a collaborative process.
Gina listens first, then works with each person to shape goals and steps that make sense for their life. She draws on several therapy methods to match the approach to the problem at hand. Gina has worked across many settings over three decades, helping people with issues such as parenting stress, caregiving strain, attachment and abandonment concerns, and identity questions.
Her broad experience informs how she tailors conversations and practical strategies for different situations. People who choose Gina often want clear guidance plus room to tell their story. She aims to empower clients to make changes at a pace that feels manageable.
Her New York license is LCSW and she conducts sessions in English, including with international clients by arrangement.
How Gina's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then focus on values-based action to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current connections and helps people build healthier ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Gina will help clients figure out which methods match their needs, goals, and personal preferences. She tailors the plan as issues evolve, so the approach can change if something else fits better.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and learning new skills. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text messaging can be used for brief updates, homework, or more frequent support between longer sessions. These formats let people fit therapy into busy lives and keep consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English