About Gina
Gina Helms is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Alabama who brings a somatic-informed approach to therapy. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship strain, and a wide range of life changes. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, aiming to make the room feel safe for honest conversation.
Gina uses short-term strategies and longer-term tools depending on what each person needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and actions.
Background and approach
Somatic techniques are used to help clients connect body sensations with emotions and reduce physical stress responses. Her practice also addresses concerns such as parenting stress, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and bipolar-related challenges. She helps people manage addictions and co-occurring problems like substance use and mood symptoms.
Additional focuses include attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, and recovery after domestic violence or other trauma. Gina believes therapy should be tailored to the individual. Sessions often combine talk-based work with practical exercises and grounding practices people can use at home.
She brings four years of professional experience to each case and aims to help clients build more satisfying, stable daily lives. People who choose Gina can expect straightforward guidance, steady support, and hands-on coping tools. She invites anyone ready to try therapy to begin with clear goals and a collaborative plan.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how emotions show up in the body and learn simple ways to calm physical tension. Online sessions can include guided grounding and breath-based exercises to reduce stress responses and increase present-moment awareness. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. ACT is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where getting unstuck is a goal. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of connecting and communicating during everyday life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try strategies that match those needs. This collaborative process allows adjustments along the way if something does not fit.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging, which offer practical benefits. Remote sessions make scheduling more flexible and reduce travel time. Different formats also let people choose deeper conversations on video or shorter check-ins by text, so care can fit changing needs and rhythms.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English