About Gina
Gina Clemente is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California. She earned a master’s degree in counseling from California State University, Fullerton and has six years of clinical experience supporting adults through common life struggles. Gina focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction.
She also helps people navigate relationship strain, grief, intimacy-related concerns, and career stress. Her work includes attention to family of origin issues, attachment and abandonment wounds, and challenges young adults often face.
How Gina works
She uses an integrative approach that blends psychodynamic insight, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and humanistic principles. Sessions aim to clarify patterns, build coping skills, and improve communication. Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Gina’s style is patient and direct. She encourages honest talk about feelings and behaviors, and she helps people set concrete steps toward change. Therapy may include short skills practice, reflection on past patterns, and checking how new choices feel in daily life.
Work together focuses on what matters now and what can change going forward. Gina helps people rebuild a sense of self-worth, manage emotions, and find clearer ways to relate to others. She frames progress in small, practical steps that fit each person’s life.
What Gina works with
The areas below are the ones Gina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Gina’s Approaches Work Online
Gina uses several evidence-based techniques in a way that fits online work. Cognitive-behavioral methods focus on spotting unhelpful thinking and practicing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. These techniques translate well to video or phone sessions and often include homework between meetings.Psychodynamic ideas help people notice repeated patterns that come from earlier relationships. Talking through those patterns online can bring new awareness about how past experiences shape current reactions and relationship habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Gina works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts the focus as progress unfolds.
Online therapy here uses flexible formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or convenience matters, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules, and they let people pick the format that helps them engage most effectively.
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