About Gina
Gina Sokolich is a Licensed Professional Counselor with eight years of clinical experience. She draws on a background in emergency medical services to understand how intense stress and trauma can shape daily life. Gina offers a calm, direct presence and aims to help people make sense of hard situations and find practical next steps.
Gina often helps people coping with anxiety, stress, sleep problems, grief, anger, and changes in life.
How Gina works
She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, self-esteem concerns, and issues tied to codependency, commitment, and communication. Additional focuses include body image, blended family issues, first responder challenges, and forgiveness work. Her style is client-led.
She listens first and follows each person's pace. At the same time she will gently challenge unhelpful patterns and suggest experiments to try between sessions. Gina uses straightforward language and concrete suggestions so people can apply tools outside the appointment.
Gina commonly uses cognitive behavioral ideas to change thinking and behavior, acceptance and commitment concepts to clarify values and action, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for trauma work. She also incorporates client-centered listening and existential reflection when it fits a person's goals. Sessions are offered from Missouri and are held in English.
People describe her approach as practical and compassionate, focused on helping them move forward with clearer choices and coping strategies.
Gina lists 10 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How her approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small, values-based steps toward those goals. It helps with anxiety, stress, and decisions about life direction by pairing acceptance of hard feelings with committed action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to change patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. It is useful for sleep problems, worry, and anger management. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps process distressing memories so they have less emotional charge; it is often used for traumatic experiences and abuse.Finding the right fit is a team effort. Gina will discuss these approaches with each person and recommend methods based on their goals, history, and comfort level. She adapts techniques over time so sessions match what is helpful, balancing listening, exercises, and homework tasks.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief, written check-ins and ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or unpredictable schedules while still using ACT, CBT, or EMDR techniques in treatment.
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