About Gina
Gina Pate-Terry is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 19 years of experience to therapy. She works in Montana and offers a calm, respectful approach for people coping with stress and anxiety. Gina emphasizes clear, direct conversation and practical steps that fit each person's life.
She helps people facing addictions, grief and loss, and depression. She also supports those dealing with relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and parenting stress.
Background and approach
Gina pays attention to concerns such as body image, chronic illness and pain, sleep and eating difficulties, and work-related strain. Her style is flexible and person-centered. Gina listens first, then tailors a plan that matches a person’s goals and daily routine.
Sessions focus on skills you can use right away and on ways to manage strong emotions when they arise. Gina also addresses anxiety presentations like panic attacks, social anxiety, and ongoing worry. She works with issues tied to identity and the LGBT community, women’s issues, and life transitions such as divorce or midlife shifts.
She includes attention to self-esteem, forgiveness, and reducing isolation. People who reach out can expect a straightforward, compassionate conversation about what matters to them. Gina recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and aims to make the process clear and manageable.
Her experience offers a steady resource for navigating change and rebuilding daily coping.
Evidence-based techniques and flexible online care
Gina uses common evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and building practical coping skills. Cognitive-style approaches help people notice anxious thinking patterns and try different ways of responding, which can reduce panic and ongoing worry. She also uses skill-building and behavioral strategies that teach calm, grounding, and activity planning to manage depression, stress, and addictive urges.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gina will work with each person to decide which techniques match their needs, goals, and day-to-day routine, and she adapts methods as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when camera use is not preferred. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions, making it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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