About Gina
Gina Tillman is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 14 years of hands-on experience to her practice in Florida. She focuses on trauma and addiction while also helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. Gina uses a non-judgmental, goal-focused style to help people take practical steps forward.
Her work is collaborative. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and supports them in identifying what matters most.
Background and approach
Sessions often start with clear, achievable goals and move toward building everyday skills for coping and emotional regulation. Gina draws from client-centered methods to keep the person’s priorities central. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Mindfulness and skills-based methods are used to reduce reactivity and improve daily functioning. For people with trauma histories, EMDR can be part of the plan to process difficult memories. Dialectical behavior therapy tools are used when strong emotions, self-harm urges, or relationship instability interfere with life.
Gina adapts methods to the person rather than following a single script. Her background includes work in mental health clinics, independent practice, and years supporting veterans. That range has shaped a practical approach that emphasizes skills, awareness, and steady progress.
Gina aims to help people build a life they find worth living.
Practical approaches for online trauma and mood work
Gina uses client-centered work to put the person’s goals at the center of each session. This approach means conversations focus on what the client wants to change and what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of thinking and behaving, which helps with anxiety, depression, and daily stress.For trauma-related distress she may include eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, a method aimed at processing distressing memories so they become less triggering. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are also available to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication when emotions run high. Gina will discuss these options and work together to pick the best fit for the client’s goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling busy lives. Video calls allow a face-to-face experience when discussing complex topics, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New York
- Languages
- English