About Gino
Gino Rubens is a licensed counselor who aims to make therapy straightforward and useful. He holds LPC and LMHC credentials and practices from South Carolina. He brings three years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.
Gino likes to keep sessions direct and practical. He uses clear language and simple tools to help people notice patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
He works with trauma and abuse survivors and people facing issues like low self-esteem, isolation, or mood swings. He combines techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches, dialectical methods, and mindfulness to build skills for handling strong emotions. That often looks like practicing new ways to think about difficult situations and learning tools to calm the body and mind.
Gino also includes acceptance-based work to help clients clarify values and take meaningful steps forward. Sessions emphasize collaboration. He listens to each person's story and then creates a plan together.
The plan can include practical exercises, coping strategies, and ways to improve communication and daily routines. Gino also addresses less often discussed topics such as chronic illness, end-of-life concerns, body image, and men's issues. He aims to help people reconnect with themselves and their supports so life feels more manageable and more rewarding.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values even when emotions are strong. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, mood concerns, and everyday stress. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention to present-moment experiences and gentle acceptance of difficult feelings, which supports emotion regulation and stress reduction.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person's needs and goals. Sessions may combine techniques from different approaches so the plan fits what the client prefers and what helps in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and brief check-ins work well over chat or text. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules, manage unexpected symptom shifts, and practice new skills between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida, South Carolina
- Languages
- English