About Gino
Gino Rubens is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing from South Carolina. He draws on three years of clinical experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and trauma-related concerns. He aims to build straightforward plans that address the issues people bring to sessions.
Gino has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings. That background shaped his ability to support people dealing with depression, PTSD, addiction-related struggles, and mood or personality disorders.
Background and approach
He focuses on restoring a sense of pleasure and connection to life by addressing what gets in the way. In sessions he uses evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies. He also incorporates mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas to help people cope with painful thoughts and emotions.
Therapy time is used for clear skills practice, reflection, and planning small steps forward. Gino aims to listen first and understand each person’s perspective before suggesting tools. He offers practical psychoeducation and collaborates on treatment goals.
He is comfortable having direct, sometimes difficult, conversations while staying empathic and respectful. People who value straightforward guidance and hands-on skills work may find his approach helpful. His practice supports concerns like anxiety, relationship strain, self-esteem, and life transitions.
Sessions combine concrete strategies with attention to personal values and meaning.
Online approaches that teach coping and choice
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) centers on clarifying what matters most and taking small steps toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It can help when anxiety or avoidance keeps someone from living the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors that reduce symptoms over time; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) brings together skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication, which can be useful for intense emotions and relationship strain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying a mix of ACT, CBT, mindfulness, and DBT skills and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering practical flexibility. Video calls allow conversational sessions and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health-related schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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