About Gina
Gina Young is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) based in Michigan with 17 years of professional experience. She helps people who are stressed or anxious find clearer ways to cope and move forward. Gina uses straightforward, compassionate conversation to help people feel heard and understood.
She works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, addictions, and issues around self-esteem and confidence. Gina also supports people facing relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, and difficulties with intimacy and anger.
Background and approach
Parents can get help with parenting challenges and family conflict, and she offers coaching around career and life transitions. In sessions Gina aims to build an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. She encourages practical steps clients can try between meetings and focuses on small changes that add up.
The work often includes improving communication, addressing guilt and shame, and finding ways to reduce isolation and loneliness. Gina brings experience helping people with ADHD, social anxiety and phobias, bipolar concerns, and compassion fatigue. She tailors her approach to each person's needs and goals.
Her style mixes listening, real-world problem solving, and encouragement toward more self-love and purpose. People who start with Gina can expect calm guidance and practical tools for everyday life. She supports clients through both immediate stress and longer-term life changes, helping them build habits that sustain well-being over time.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Gina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete skills and real-life changes. One common approach emphasizes learning coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing strategies, worry management, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. Another strand of her work centers on improving communication and relationships through clear, practiceable interaction skills and exercises that help repair conflict and build connection.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Gina will talk through goals, preferences, and the issues you bring, then recommend practical methods to try. This collaboration helps ensure the plan fits each person's situation and adjusts over time based on what works.
Online therapy gives flexibility to fit sessions into busy days. Video calls let people meet face to face from wherever they are, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a quick break, and live chat or text messaging supports shorter check-ins and ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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