About Gina
Gina McKinney-Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience based in New York. She works with people facing anxiety, stress, mood changes, grief, and trauma. Her approach is straightforward and respectful.
She aims to meet people where they are and support practical change. Gina adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's situation. She draws on methods like cognitive behavioral work and acceptance strategies to help manage overwhelming thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-focused ideas to look at relationship patterns and how early experiences affect current stress. Sessions are collaborative and plainspoken. Gina listens first, then offers tools that people can try between meetings.
She emphasizes small, doable steps so progress feels achievable even during hard times. Over her 30-year career she has helped people navigate addictions, caregiving strain, career stress, and identity concerns such as LGBT-related challenges. She also supports people dealing with disruption from major life events, loss, or changing roles in family life.
Gina tailors the pace and focus to each person’s goals. She respects individual values and preferences while offering evidence-informed techniques. Her aim is to help clients build skills that fit day-to-day life and create clearer choices moving forward.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Gina uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify and change patterns of thinking that contribute to anxiety and low mood. CBT focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with manageable behavioral steps to reduce distress. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify values and take meaningful action even when uncomfortable feelings are present. ACT encourages mindfulness and commitment to chosen goals rather than getting stuck trying to eliminate all distress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Gina will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize skills practice, values-based work, or relationship-focused exploration and adjust that plan over time.
Online therapy can make regular care easier to fit into life. Video calls offer face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging are useful for brief check-ins or quick skills coaching between appointments. These options give flexibility for different schedules and needs while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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