About Gina
Gina Tillman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience helping people facing trauma, addiction, anxiety, and mood concerns. She works in Florida and focuses on practical supports that help people manage stressful moments and move toward better day-to-day functioning. She uses a collaborative, client-centered approach that starts with listening to what matters most to each person.
Sessions emphasize clear goals and concrete steps, such as building coping skills, improving sleep and routines, or managing urges related to addictions.
Background and approach
Gina draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, and other approaches to shape those steps. Her background includes clinic work and independent practice. Over the years she has supported people navigating grief, relationship challenges, parenting strain, career stress, and chronic health concerns.
She also has experience helping people with mood disorders, ADHD, and difficulties linked to trauma and dissociation. In sessions she focuses on creating awareness of patterns that cause pain and on teaching tools that change daily behavior. That might mean practicing grounding or breathing skills, identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts, or learning emotion regulation strategies from dialectical approaches.
Gina aims to tailor work to each person’s life and goals. She helps people clarify what they want to change, then builds small, manageable steps toward those goals. Many clients find the mix of practical skill-building and supportive conversation useful when coping with life transitions and stressful events.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s priorities and fosters a respectful, collaborative atmosphere where the therapist listens and responds to what the client wants to work on. This approach can help with relationship concerns, self-esteem, grief, and general life transitions by centering your goals and values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating habit changes, and it gives concrete homework and skill practice to use between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills. Those tools are helpful for managing intense emotions, anger, or patterns of impulsive behavior and can be learned through short exercises and real-world practice.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what fits the client’s needs and preferences. That collaborative process helps narrow to the most useful strategies over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and practice skills together, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, shorter touchpoints between sessions, and ways to keep therapy connected to everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New York
- Languages
- English
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