About Gina
Dr. Gina Coffaro helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, and life transitions. She supports clients facing issues like depression, addiction, ADHD, intimacy concerns, and career uncertainty.
Her work also covers eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and concerns common to first responders and veterans. Dr. Coffaro practices with attention to LGBT needs and trauma and abuse recovery.
She has 20 years of counseling experience and holds the LPC credential, practicing in New Jersey.
How Gina works
Her background includes work in school systems and independent practice, and she completed a doctoral degree at Drew University in individual and family counseling. The focus is on practical skills people can use day to day. Sessions emphasize listening first, then building strengths and coping tools together.
She uses clear, hands-on methods based on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Emotion-focused and mindfulness techniques help with connections and coping in the moment. Clients can expect a collaborative, coaching-minded style.
The tone is supportive and direct, aimed at helping people find small changes that add up. She frames progress around each person's goals rather than one fixed plan. Dr.
Coffaro often blends approaches to match a person's needs, focusing on skills for anxiety, communication work for relationships, and practical strategies for mood and motivation. She helps people translate what they learn in sessions into real life routines and choices.
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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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects back concerns, and helps people identify their own solutions; this is useful for relationship work and self-esteem issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical exercises to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors, which helps with anxiety, depression, and compulsive patterns.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and change interaction patterns that fuel relationship distress. It uses focused conversation to improve connection and reduce reactivity in close relationships.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about their needs, goals, and what feels most useful, then try methods together to find the best fit. That collaboration helps shape a personalized plan rather than relying on one fixed technique.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer sessions, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing encouragement between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
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