About Gina
Gina Pate-Terry is a licensed clinical social worker in Montana with 19 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction challenges, grief, and depression. Gina aims to offer respectful, sensitive, and compassionate care to each person she sees.
She adapts conversations and treatment plans to fit individual needs. Sessions are built around practical steps people can use between meetings. Gina pays attention to relationship and intimacy concerns, body image, and self-esteem issues as part of her work.
How Gina works
Her practice also addresses workplace stress, career questions, and issues around life purpose and midlife transition. She supports people dealing with chronic pain, illness, or disability and helps with sleep and eating difficulties. Anger, guilt, shame, isolation, and forgiveness are other areas she assists with.
Gina has worked with trauma, abuse, and compassion fatigue and provides help for panic attacks and social anxiety. She also offers guidance on parenting stress, divorce and separation, and communication problems. Clients can expect a collaborative approach that focuses on clear goals and doable strategies.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability. Sessions may be scheduled in formats that fit varied routines and commitments.
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
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Montana |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Gina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and real-world changes. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches ways to manage anxiety and panic attacks through breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. Another frequent focus is coping strategies for depression and grief that emphasize routine, behavioral activation, and small goals to rebuild energy and interest.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gina will discuss options with each person, weigh what feels most useful, and adjust methods based on the person's goals and preferences. She tailors plans to match life circumstances and checks in regularly to see what is helping.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when schedules make in-person visits difficult. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or helpful when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexible ways to share updates between sessions or to fit support into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy part of a regular routine.
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