About Gina
Gina Porter is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. She works with adults facing depression, addictions, trauma, grief, sleep problems, anger, and major life changes. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people feel heard and steady again.
Gina draws on practical, evidence-based approaches to tailor care to each person. Sessions move at a pace the client finds comfortable and focus on skills that apply to daily life.
Background and approach
She helps people spot unhelpful patterns, try different coping strategies, and build routines that support better mood and function. Her background includes work in inpatient and outpatient mental health settings, substance use treatment, and independent practice. That range gave her experience with a wide variety of problems and ways people get stuck.
She uses that experience to offer clear, realistic steps instead of vague reassurance. In therapy she addresses both current problems and how past experiences shape present behavior. Conversations often include learning emotion regulation skills, improving sleep and self-care, and changing behaviors that harm relationships.
Gina aims for practical tools clients can use between sessions. People who reach out can expect a nonjudgmental, strengths-focused approach. Gina helps identify goals, reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, and support long-term change.
She encourages collaboration so clients feel involved in planning their care.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Gina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to help people manage anxiety and stress. CBT focuses on noticing thoughts and behaviors that make problems worse and testing new ways of thinking or acting. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and mood.She treats therapy as a partnership. Together they will decide which approaches to try based on current needs and goals. Gina will check in about what helps and adjust methods so work in sessions carries over into everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets you use visual cues and longer conversations, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can allow quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing exercises between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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