About Ginger
Ginger King is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She focuses on practical support for self-esteem, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and the strain that comes with caregiving or career change. Her tone is direct and compassionate to help worried parents and adults find steady, usable strategies.
Ginger uses clear, evidence-informed methods to help people manage strong emotions and day-to-day challenges.
How Ginger works
Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused. She helps clients learn skills for coping, improve communication, and make changes that fit their real life. Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and a variety of complex life situations like adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, and chronic illness or pain.
She also addresses attachment, codependency, control issues, and family of origin concerns. Ginger draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered work. She combines listening with concrete tools so people can test small changes between sessions and track progress.
People meet her for help with relationship patterns, communication problems, feelings of emptiness, and major life shifts like divorce or separation. She offers steady support while helping each person find strategies that fit their values and daily reality.
Ginger lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Ginger works with
The areas below are the ones Ginger selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
How Ginger uses proven approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and still move toward what matters. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and when life changes make values unclear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to test new ways of thinking and acting. This approach often helps with stress, mood, and repetitive negative thinking.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ginger will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Then she and the client decide on a plan that may use ACT, CBT, or other tools in combination, and adjust that plan as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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