About Gina
Gina Helms is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Alabama. She brings four years of counseling experience and focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage symptoms that get in the way of daily life. Her work centers on building a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addiction, and trouble with sleep or self-esteem.
She also helps with relationship concerns, parenting strain, coping with life changes, and mood challenges such as bipolar symptoms.
How Gina works
Gina supports people navigating issues related to identity and LGBT concerns as well. She draws from several approaches to shape sessions to each person's needs. That can mean using short-term strategies to shift thoughts and behaviors, tools to manage intense emotions, or exercises that clarify values and goals.
Attachment-focused work and client-centered listening also guide how she responds in the room. Gina tailors plans to common additional struggles like codependency, caregiver stress, body image, abandonment worries, and substance use challenges. She also works with people dealing with divorce, domestic violence histories, or blended family stress.
Sessions emphasize clear steps and small skills to try between meetings. People who meet with her can expect collaborative planning, simple tools to practice, and honest conversations about progress. Her goal is to help people move toward steadier moods and more manageable days.
Gina lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Gina often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are strong. ACT focuses on mixing acceptance of difficult feelings with committed action toward meaningful goals.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try practical behavior experiments that can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. CBT gives simple tools people can practice between sessions to change how they think and act.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gina collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility that many people need. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and text-based messaging suits shorter updates or reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity even when life gets hectic.
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