About Gina
Gina Landsee offers straightforward support for people facing heavy life challenges. She responds without judgment and aims to make sessions feel manageable. Her first priority is helping someone feel heard and understood.
Gina brings 17 years of clinical experience and works from Minnesota as an LPCC. She commonly helps people dealing with addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with major life changes. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, blended family stress, cancer-related distress, and substance use problems.
Background and approach
Her style is person-centered and empathetic. Gina meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps they can try between sessions. She draws on several evidence-based techniques to tailor work to each person’s needs rather than using a single fixed method.
Gina often blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with motivational interviewing and trauma-informed ways of working. She also uses some skills from dialectical behavioral approaches and short-term solution-focused ideas when those fit. This mix helps with mood struggles, relationship patterns, and coping after loss or traumatic events.
People who choose Gina can expect clear goals, respectful listening, and collaboration on next steps. She guides conversations about communication problems, control issues, codependency, dissociation, and family tensions, helping people find what eases their daily stress. If change feels overwhelming, she helps break it into smaller, doable actions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Gina uses a few well-established techniques in her work. Cognitive-behavioral ideas focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors, which can help with depression, anxiety, and patterns that fuel substance use. Motivational interviewing helps people clarify what matters to them and strengthen their own reasons for change, especially useful for addictions and commitment issues.She also draws on trauma-informed perspectives that recognize how past harm affects present coping and relationships; this approach emphasizes safety, pacing, and helping people regain a sense of control. Choosing the right combination of approaches is a collaborative process. Gina will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust methods as work progresses so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, tracking progress between sessions, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it possible to schedule support around daily life and stick with changes over time.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English