About Gina
Gina Helms is a licensed professional counselor in Alabama who uses a mix of practical therapy methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and trauma. She creates a calm, non-judgmental space where people can talk about problems and start making small changes. Gina draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral work and acceptance strategies to address symptoms and day-to-day struggles.
With four years of experience, she adapts sessions to fit each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear steps clients can try between meetings, such as coping skills, thought practice, and behavior experiments. Gina also uses techniques to help people notice and respond differently to difficult emotions. She brings attachment-focused ideas into conversations about relationships and trust, helping people understand patterns that repeat over time.
Dialectical behavior ideas are used when someone needs skills to manage intense emotions and improve interpersonal effectiveness. The overall aim is steady, doable progress toward goals that matter to the individual. Gina works with a wide range of concerns including mood disorders, substance issues, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, and parenting stress.
She supports people processing major life changes, grief, or challenges tied to identity and relationships. Her approach is warm, steady, and practical. People who choose Gina can expect collaborative planning, skills practice, and regular check-ins on what’s helping.
Conversations emphasize safety, respect, and clear next steps to try between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then move toward values-based action. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching flexible responses rather than fighting every uncomfortable feeling.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, panic, mood challenges, and behavior changes tied to addiction or sleep problems.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns of connection and trust that shape relationships and sense of safety. This approach helps when relationship patterns, abandonment concerns, or attachment issues affect day-to-day life and self-view.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and is decided together. The therapist will listen to a person’s goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust over time based on what helps most. This makes sessions collaborative and evolving rather than fixed.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - offer flexibility for different needs. Video sessions let people use visual cues during deeper conversations, phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low, live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use the format that feels most comfortable.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English