About Gina
Gina Dunphy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, relationship strain, phobias, or mood changes. Gina aims to make sessions straightforward and useful for everyday life.
Her approach is client-directed and flexible. Clients set the pace and pick the issues they want to address. Some people want practical problem solving, while others need a calm space to talk things through and get feedback.
Background and approach
Gina combines several methods to match each person’s needs, drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, trauma-focused ideas, and depth work inspired by Jungian and existential perspectives. She uses these tools to help with symptoms like panic attacks, insomnia, or persistent worry and to explore deeper patterns such as attachment or body image concerns.
She brings three decades of clinical experience to conversations about addiction, intimacy problems, codependency, aging concerns, and grief. Sessions often include simple exercises, mindful practices, or thought-challenging tasks clients can try between meetings. Gina’s style is warm, steady, and practical.
Gina works with people in Illinois and accepts international clients for online sessions. Her goal is to partner with each person to find approaches that fit their life and goals.
Approaches that translate to online care
Gina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this often includes practical exercises and steps clients can try between sessions to reduce anxiety or panic. She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy, teaching attention and breathing practices that can ease stress and improve sleep and focus.The choice of methods is collaborative. Gina works with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs and goals. Together they review what’s helping and adjust the plan as therapy progresses so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversational work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging lets clients check in between meetings or have shorter touchpoints. These options make it simpler to schedule therapy around work, travel, or busy family life while still doing consistent therapeutic work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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