About Gina
Gina McKinney-Thompson is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of practice in New York. She brings steady experience to sessions and focuses on helping people navigate hard times. Her approach centers on respect, sensitivity, and compassion in each conversation.
Gina helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, and addictions. She also addresses relationship and family concerns, grief, parenting strain, career questions, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
How Gina works
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care matters, caregiver stress, body image, and communication problems. Her style is collaborative and direct. Gina adapts discussions and plans to fit each person’s situation rather than using one fixed method.
She draws on several clinical approaches to shape practical steps clients can try between sessions. Sessions may include skill-building for emotion regulation, ways to shift unhelpful thoughts, and exercises to clarify values and goals. Gina emphasizes small, achievable changes that add up over time.
She supports people as they practice new responses to old problems. Gina offers work through transitions such as major life changes, loss, or recovery from difficult experiences. She accepts people seeking help from outside the United States and conducts sessions in English.
As a New York LCSW she blends long experience with a steady, person-focused way of working.
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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
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values, even when thoughts and feelings are difficult. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication in relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Gina will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then tailor a plan that blends methods when helpful. The process is collaborative and adjusts over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives and different comfort levels. Video sessions are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, a caregiving schedule, or during travel.
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