About Gina
Gina Sokolich is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eight years of clinical experience. She previously worked in EMS and draws on that background when addressing trauma and work-related stress. Gina aims to make first steps feel manageable for people who are worried about anxiety, stress, relationship strain, grief, or major life changes.
Gina keeps sessions client-led and practical. She listens without rushing and gives people room to think. At the same time she will gently challenge unhelpful patterns and offer concrete steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her work often focuses on trauma from first-responder roles and difficult relationship dynamics such as narcissistic partnerships. She also supports people facing body image concerns, codependency, blended family issues, and the aftermath of abuse and domestic violence. Gina commonly uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, cognitive behavioral techniques, and acceptance and commitment principles.
She explains exercises plainly and coaches people through skills for managing sleep, anger, and overwhelming stress. Sessions may include short mindfulness practices, clear behavior-based homework, and conversational reflection. Gina aims to help people notice patterns, try small experiments, and build coping steps that fit their daily life.
How Gina’s Approaches Work Online
Gina often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to address anxiety, trauma, and stress. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve sleep and daily routine. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing helps people work through disturbing memories and the feelings they bring up, often reducing the intensity of those reactions over time.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gina will collaborate with each person to decide whether CBT techniques, EMDR, or acceptance-based strategies fit best for their goals and comfort. She adapts methods to the person’s pace and checks in regularly about what is helping.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and guided exercises. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are handy for shorter check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep consistent momentum toward change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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