About Gina
Dr. Gina Coffaro helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and life transitions. She focuses on building coping skills for day-to-day life and on practical changes that help people feel more in control.
Gina is an LPC with twenty years of counseling experience and works with adults on a range of concerns from mood difficulties to career stress. She emphasizes a strengths-based, person-centered approach. Sessions focus on listening, clear goals, and step-by-step strategies.
Background and approach
Gina mixes mindfulness and cognitive tools to reduce worry and improve sleep and focus. She also uses emotion-focused methods to address intimacy and relationship patterns. Gina earned a doctoral degree from Drew University with a focus on individual and family counseling.
Her background includes work in school systems and independent practice in New Jersey. That mix gives her experience with both short-term challenges and longer-term life issues. In sessions people can expect practical skill building.
She helps clients identify unhelpful thinking, try behavioral experiments, and practice mindfulness exercises. For relationship and intimacy matters she works toward better communication and clearer emotional understanding. Gina also supports people facing grief, addiction, career changes, first responder or veteran-related stress, obsessive thoughts, and seasonal mood changes.
Her style aims to be collaborative and encouraging while focusing on realistic steps toward daily improvements.
Approach and access: therapy methods online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It means sessions start from your goals and experiences, and the therapist follows your pace to build trust and clarity. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework; it is often used for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals and preferences. That might mean combining mindfulness practices, CBT tools, and emotionally-focused work to address both thinking patterns and relationship dynamics.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging offer quick check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, family, or travel while keeping momentum in therapy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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