About Gina
Gina Spielman is a licensed clinical social worker with 27 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship strain. She works with individuals facing grief, career shifts, trauma, and life transitions. Clients can expect clear, practical support in a calm, respectful space.
Gina uses a client-centered style that focuses on each person's values and goals. She blends methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions look at daily life - sleep, work, parenting, and self-worth - to build realistic habits that reduce distress. Her background includes long-term clinical work in Illinois and experience supporting people through serious illness, caregiving strain, and bereavement. That history informs how she helps clients handle big changes and ongoing stressors without minimizing what they have been through.
Gina also draws on existential and Jungian ideas to explore meaning, identity, and the deeper questions people bring to therapy. This can help when someone feels empty, stuck, or uncertain about purpose. Therapy often mixes practical skill-building with reflective conversation.
She offers flexible session styles that fit different needs, including phone and video sessions and text-based options. If faith or spirituality matters, she is open to including those concerns in the work when requested.
How Gina’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, behaviors, and emotions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns like avoidance or rigid thinking. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, respectful relationship and follows the person’s pace and concerns to build trust and insight.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gina collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities. She adjusts techniques over time so sessions feel relevant and useful rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. Video is helpful when visual cues matter, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, brief chats or text messaging work well for check-ins or between-session support, and live chat lets someone have a focused conversation without scheduling a call. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work through transitions and stress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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