About Ginger
Ginger Drake is a licensed professional counselor in Michigan with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on supporting people who are facing addiction, substance use concerns, and related emotional struggles. Her work is direct and practical, aimed at helping clients make real changes in day-to-day life.
Her primary experience has been with adults dealing with drug and alcohol addiction and process addictions such as gambling, exercise, or pornography. She also addresses anxiety, stress, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression.
Background and approach
Additional focus areas include cancer-related concerns, eating and food-related issues, family of origin struggles, forgiveness, seasonal affective disorder, traumatic brain injury, and women's issues. Ginger's approach has evolved over the years.
She has tried many theoretical orientations and now is pursuing certification in biblical Christian counseling, which uses biblical principles and scripture as the basis for sessions when that is the client's preference. She integrates faith-based material only when it aligns with a client's values and goals. In sessions she aims to be straightforward and realistic.
Conversations often include setting clear goals, identifying unhelpful patterns, and practicing coping strategies. She tailors plans to what a person can manage between appointments. People who seek her help often want a counselor who combines practical steps with strong personal convictions.
Ginger works to create a supportive space where clients can work toward lasting change.
How Ginger Uses Different Approaches Online
Ginger works from evidence-based therapeutic techniques adapted to online care. She emphasizes approaches that help with addiction and related emotional problems, including practical behavior-focused work that breaks patterns contributing to substance use. This approach helps people identify triggers and build alternative routines to reduce harmful behaviors.She also integrates faith-informed biblical Christian counseling for clients who request it, using scripture and faith-based principles to frame goals, decisions, and personal growth. When faith-based work is chosen, sessions look at values, meaning, and motivation through a biblical lens to support long-term change.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Ginger discusses goals, preferences, and how a person responds to different techniques, and then adapts methods as therapy progresses. She works with each person to choose the mix of approaches that fits their needs and life circumstances.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls let you meet face-to-face, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or a camera is not wanted, live chat provides quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent care into everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Cancer
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English