About Gina
Gina Spielman is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 27 years of experience to therapy in Illinois. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, stress, and relationship concerns. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at practical steps people can use right away.
Gina creates a calm space for people to talk about work strain, parenting pressures, sleep problems, and life changes. She also addresses trauma, anger, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and issues like abandonment or codependency.
Background and approach
Sessions are geared toward what matters most in each person’s life. Her work blends evidence-informed strategies with a client-centered outlook. She uses techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside mindfulness and exploratory methods.
That mix helps people notice patterns, make values-based choices, and try small behavior changes that add up. Gina often helps people who are facing career shifts, relationship breakups, blended family challenges, or health-related stress. She also supports those dealing with emptiness, commitment worries, or communication problems.
Conversations are practical and focused on next steps as well as understanding feelings. People who choose Gina can expect straightforward feedback and collaborative planning. She can discuss incorporating faith if a client wants that included.
Work with Gina centers on building resilience, clearer self-understanding, and ways to cope with day-to-day demands.
Approach and online options that fit your life
Gina uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small, values‑driven actions. ACT can be useful for stress, anxiety, and feeling stuck when someone wants to move toward a more meaningful life.She also draws on Client‑Centered Therapy, offering an accepting, nonjudgmental space where clients steer the conversation. This approach supports people coping with grief, life transitions, and self‑esteem struggles by focusing on their experience and pace.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gina will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest techniques that match those aims. She treats therapy as a collaborative process and adjusts methods over time based on what is helping.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are lower on bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent exchanges. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while adapting to each person’s schedule and communication style.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English