About Gina
Gina Spielman is a licensed clinical social worker with 27 years of experience helping people through major life changes. She practices in Illinois and offers practical, down-to-earth support for emotional challenges. Gina uses an adaptive, person-focused style to meet people where they are.
Her work covers many concerns, including depression, anxiety, grief, and relationship difficulties. She also helps people facing career transitions, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and recovery from trauma and abuse.
How Gina works
Parenting strain, sleep problems, anger, and low self-esteem are additional areas she addresses. Gina draws from several approaches to shape sessions around each person. She blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive techniques, client-centered listening, and a reflective, meaning-focused lens to help people find clearer direction.
Jungian and existential ideas may appear for those curious about deeper themes and life purpose. Sessions tend to be practical and conversational. Gina helps people notice unhelpful patterns, practice small changes, and make values-based decisions.
She can include faith-based perspectives when that fits the person's goals. Clients meet by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what works best. The pathway to starting is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step that aligns with therapist availability.
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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.
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approach-driven support delivered online
Gina frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters most and taking small, committed steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. CBT looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and moods interact and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns for issues like anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gina will discuss your goals and preferences and tailor methods that fit your situation. That collaboration helps decide whether to emphasize acceptance and values, cognitive skills, or a mix that also brings in client-centered listening and deeper meaning work when useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets you see facial cues and practice communication skills, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching-style contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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