About Gina
Gina Dunphy is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She offers a calm, steady presence and works with each person to figure out what they want from therapy. Gina listens first, then helps people choose practical next steps that fit their life.
Gina’s style is client-directed and flexible. She uses ideas from cognitive behavioral therapy to tackle unhelpful thinking and mindfulness techniques to build moments of calm.
Background and approach
She also draws on existential and Jungian ideas when people want to look at meaning, identity, or patterns that repeat across their life. Sessions can focus on immediate problem solving, such as managing panic attacks or improving sleep. Other times the work is more about being heard and getting perspective on grief, relationship strain, or midlife changes.
Gina adapts to each person’s goals and pace. Gina holds a Master of Social Work and is an LCSW in Illinois. Her background includes work across many concerns, including trauma, addictions, body image, and intimacy-related issues.
She brings practical skills and long experience to everyday struggles. People comfortable with a collaborative, down-to-earth approach often find her helpful. Conversations are straightforward and focused on what will make life feel more manageable.
Gina welcomes people who want to try different methods until they find what fits.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Gina often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change thought patterns that fuel anxiety and panic. This approach focuses on clear steps you can practice between sessions to reduce symptoms and improve sleep and daily functioning.She also integrates mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing skills. These practices can help reduce reactivity, calm racing thoughts, and create brief moments of relief during stressful days.
Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. Gina treats the choice of methods as a collaboration and adjusts techniques based on how a person responds. She will discuss goals, try different methods, and settle on what helps most.
Online formats offer practical benefits for this kind of work. Video calls let you use visual cues and practice in real time, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t preferred, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work consistently over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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