About Gina
Dr. Gina Ligonde is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience based in New York. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and on improving self-esteem and confidence.
She also supports those dealing with relationship and family difficulties and offers help for compassion fatigue. Her approach is straightforward and respectful. She adapts conversations and plans to fit each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify practical steps that reduce stress and make day-to-day life more manageable. Dr. Ligonde draws on long clinical experience to address complex concerns like panic attacks, chronic illness and caregiver strain.
She works with issues that affect daily functioning, such as workplace stress, money worries, and difficulty with communication. The goal is to build realistic strategies that people can use between sessions. People who come for help around relationships or separation will find a focus on clearer communication and problem-solving.
When guilt, shame, or forgiveness are central, she helps clients notice patterns and try different ways of responding. There is also attention to life transitions such as midlife questions and finding renewed purpose. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Dr. Ligonde aims to make the first steps toward help as simple as possible and meets people where they are in the process.
Evidence-based techniques and online therapy options
Dr. Ligonde uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical changes you can make. One common approach helps people recognize and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns so anxiety and panic attacks become easier to manage. Another approach centers on skills for managing stress and increasing emotional regulation, which can help with caregiver strain, chronic illness, and workplace pressure.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with you about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together you’ll try methods that fit your life and adjust them as you go to find what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for those in New York and beyond. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when schedules permit. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for brief updates, progress check-ins, or when someone wants flexibility outside regular session times. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into work, caregiving, and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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