About Gina
Gina Sokolich is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eight years of clinical experience. She moved into counseling after a career in emergency medical services and brings that practical perspective into sessions. Gina meets people where they are and focuses on what matters to them now.
She speaks plainly and keeps goals straightforward so parents can read quickly and decide if she might fit their needs. Gina has supported people facing trauma from many situations, including work-related stress common to first responders.
Background and approach
She helps people understand how past events shape current reactions and offers hands-on tools to reduce intense symptoms. She also works with people navigating relationship problems, grief, sleep trouble, anger, and life transitions. Her approach adapts to each person.
Sessions may include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and habits, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for processing traumatic memories, and Client-Centered techniques that prioritize the client's agenda. She often suggests practical exercises to use between meetings. Gina aims to balance gentle listening with careful challenges when a different perspective will help.
She can offer coaching-style guidance when someone needs direction or structure. Many people appreciate the mix of lived experience from EMS and steady therapeutic skills. She practices in Missouri and conducts sessions in English.
If someone wants straightforward, pragmatic help with stress, relationships, trauma, or coping with life changes, Gina provides a direct and supportive approach.
How Gina’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and values, then take small steps toward the life they want. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful patterns. It helps with anxiety, sleep troubles, anger, and coping with life changes. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a method used to process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional intensity; it can be helpful for people with strong reactions tied to past events.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gina will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, EMDR, or a blend fits best, and she adapts methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let the conversation feel like an in-person visit. Phone sessions are useful when a quieter connection or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing coaching easier between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving, and busy schedules while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English