About Gina
Gina McKinney-Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of practice in New York. She uses a straightforward, respectful approach and focuses on practical help for people feeling stuck or overwhelmed. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, depression, and problems tied to life changes.
Gina also helps with addiction concerns, grief, parenting challenges, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She pays attention to relationship and communication problems and offers support around identity issues including LGBT concerns.
Background and approach
Gina adapts sessions to each person. Conversations and plans are shaped to match a client’s needs and goals. She aims to make the work clear and manageable so clients can take steady steps forward.
Her approach draws on body-aware methods, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused thinking, client-centered listening, and cognitive strategies. That means sessions can include noticing physical reactions, building acceptance, exploring relationship patterns, and practicing new ways of thinking and behaving. Clients can expect a calm and compassionate presence that encourages growth.
Gina frames progress as a series of small changes rather than quick fixes. She offers steady support while people learn new tools and routines. Taking the first step can feel hard.
Gina emphasizes partnership and respects each person’s pace during the work toward a more balanced life.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Somatic therapy pays attention to physical sensations and body responses alongside thoughts and emotions; it can help with trauma reactions, chronic stress, and anxiety by teaching people to notice and regulate bodily signals. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on accepting difficult feelings while committing to meaningful actions, which helps when people feel stuck or uncertain about change. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from early caregiving and how they affect current relationships, offering ways to shift repeated patterns and improve connection.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process lets the plan shift over time as progress is made and priorities change.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, manage transportation limits, or continue work during transitions. The variety of formats also allows people to choose the way of communicating that feels most comfortable for them.
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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