About Agnes
Agnes "Ginger" Segar is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California who focuses on anxiety and stress. She helps people who are overwhelmed by worry, struggling with self-esteem, navigating ADHD challenges, or coping with grief and life changes. Ginger emphasizes clear, practical steps in sessions.
She listens first, then works with each person to set small goals. Sessions are conversational and direct, with tools you can try between meetings to reduce anxiety and manage daily stress.
Background and approach
Her work also addresses relationship concerns and communication problems. She helps people sort through family of origin issues, divorce and separation stress, and caregiver strain. When obsessions, compulsions, or phobias get in the way of daily life, she uses focused strategies to reduce their impact.
Ginger brings 14 years of clinical experience as an LMFT to her practice. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person's situation rather than using a single formula. That means practical methods aimed at real-life problems instead of jargon.
People meet her for short-term support or for longer work on deep patterns like guilt, shame, and relationship cycles. She works in English and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Getting started involves a short questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client's needs.
Approaches and online options for reducing anxiety
Ginger commonly uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people manage worry and regain control. Cognitive-behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxious responses. These methods are useful for phobias, OCD symptoms, and daily anxiety triggers.She also draws on humanistic principles that center on listening and building self-compassion. This approach helps with self-esteem, grief, and life transitions by encouraging clearer values and kinder self-talk. When attention or ADHD gets in the way, she adapts strategies to improve routines and reduce overwhelm.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust strategies over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection is helpful, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can work for brief check-ins or when writing helps process thoughts. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins during a workday, and ways to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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