About Ginger
Ginger King is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience helping people through hard moments. She works with adults who are coping with anxiety, depression, grief, low self-esteem, and big life changes. Her style is down-to-earth and practical, suited to someone who wants clear steps alongside emotional support.
Ginger focuses on real-life problems like work stress, relationship struggles, identity questions, and the ongoing strain of caregiving. She helps people name what feels overwhelming and build small, manageable tools to feel steadier.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be conversational and goal-oriented, with time for emotion and skill-building. Her background blends approaches that emphasize values, present-moment awareness, and practical thinking. That means clients learn to notice what matters to them, practice skills to manage distress, and shift unhelpful patterns.
She draws from treatments that encourage self-compassion and improved communication. Ginger brings two decades of practice in Wisconsin to her work. She aims to create a respectful space where people feel heard and can try new ways of coping.
Her experience includes helping people facing trauma, relationship conflict, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and identity-related concerns. People who want a thoughtful, steady guide through life transitions may find her approach helpful. She offers flexible session styles to fit different needs and preferences.
If someone wants to combine practical skills with emotional understanding, Ginger can help map a path forward.
How Ginger's Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take actions that match those values. It supports work on depression, anxiety, life transitions, and feeling stuck by blending mindfulness with practical steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers concrete exercises to change unhelpful thinking and reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on improving emotional connection and communication, which can help with intimacy-related concerns and relationship patterns.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they adjust methods over time so the work stays useful and relevant to day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the schedule. Live chat and text messaging make it easy to share thoughts between sessions and to get brief support during a busy week. These options help connect people to licensed professionals without needing to travel, making it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English