About Gina
Gina Tillman is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience. She offers calm, straightforward care for people navigating stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, mood concerns, and relationship struggles. Her style is warm and non-judgmental, and she focuses on practical steps people can use day to day.
Gina centers sessions on each person's goals. She uses a client-centered approach to listen first, then helps identify patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
From there she introduces tools and skills tailored to what the person wants to change. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit the individual's needs. Her background includes work in mental health clinics and in independent practice.
She has also spent years working with veterans, which contributed to her experience with trauma and addiction. That variety shaped a flexible approach to care that values both safety and progress. Gina often blends cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness with emotion regulation skills.
That mix helps people spot thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety or depression and then try small changes that reduce distress. She also uses EMDR-informed strategies when trauma processing is part of the work. People can expect an emphasis on building coping skills, improving communication, and strengthening everyday routines like sleep and self-care.
Gina also addresses life transitions, grief, and issues such as ADHD, caregiver stress, and chronic illness. Her aim is steady, doable change rather than quick fixes.
How Gina’s approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a plan around what matters most to the person. In online sessions this means the therapist and client set goals together, then choose techniques that fit the client’s daily life and schedule.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people notice thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and try small experiments to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many stress-related concerns and works well through video or phone check-ins and written exercises between meetings.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing overwhelming emotions and improving relationships. Mindfulness elements help people stay present and reduce reactivity, which can be practiced during live sessions and reinforced with short, written reminders or exercises via messaging.
Choosing the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide whether CBT, DBT skills, mindfulness, EMDR-informed strategies, or a mix fits their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision can change as the work progresses.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different days and needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and demonstrations of skills. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not possible. Live chat or messaging can support brief check-ins, practice prompts, or skill reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New York
- Languages
- English
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