About Gina
Dr. Gina DeArth-Pendley welcomes worried parents and adults looking for clear, steady help with stress and anxiety. She speaks plainly and will listen first, then work with each person to set simple, practical goals.
Her first priority is making it easier to cope day to day so families can move forward. She trained at the University of Notre Dame and holds a doctorate degree. Dr.
DeArth-Pendley has worked in many settings over 22 years, including outpatient and inpatient mental health agencies, juvenile justice, and alternative schools across multiple states.
Background and approach
That range gave her practice with mood concerns, ADHD, addiction issues, and parenting stress. Her sessions are collaborative and grounded in real tools. She uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Attachment-based ideas guide work on close relationships and communication patterns. She also brings a person-centered stance, so the conversation follows what matters most to each client. For couples or relationship strains she draws on the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce conflict.
Dr. DeArth-Pendley helps people navigate life transitions, grief over lost expectations, and identity concerns including LGBT matters. She pays attention to cultural context and the ways shame, guilt, or perfectionism can get in the way.
Sessions aim to mix listening, problem-solving, and concrete homework. Clients leave with steps they can try between meetings and a clearer sense of direction for their family life and personal goals.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how people connect and respond in close relationships and helps with trust, communication, and patterns that repeat across relationships. It can be useful for parenting strains, attachment issues, and relationship conflict.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and low mood going. It teaches specific exercises and small behavior changes clients can try between sessions to see real shifts.
Client-centered work keeps the therapy focused on each person's goals and feelings, using listening and reflection to build self-understanding and motivation for change.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest methods that match a client's needs. That plan can shift over time as progress and new concerns appear.
Online therapy offers flexible options: video calls for face-to-face interaction, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into school, work, or busy family days and to try different ways of working until a good fit is found.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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