Dr. Gina Coffaro, LPC - Therapist in New Jersey

About Gina

Dr. Gina Coffaro greets readers with a clear focus on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, and relationship challenges. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience.

She speaks plainly and aims to help adults build coping skills for daily life. Her work highlights practical steps toward better routines, clearer communication, and healthier relationships. Gina earned a doctoral degree from Drew University with a specialization in individual and family counseling.

Background and approach

She has practiced in school settings and independent practice, bringing a mix of organizational and clinical experience to sessions. Her background supports work on grief, life changes, career transitions, and issues related to intimacy and self‑esteem. Her approach centers on the person in front of her.

Sessions tend to focus on strengths and real-life tools rather than labels. Techniques draw from cognitive behavioral strategies, emotionally-focused work, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and client-centered listening. These methods are used to address things like anxiety, depression, addictions, and parenting challenges.

Many clients come for help with specific problems like sleep issues, anger, or obsessive thoughts, and Gina aims to translate therapy into day-to-day changes. She also offers coaching-style guidance for career and life goals. The emphasis is on small, doable steps that build confidence and reduce stress.

Above all, she positions herself as a partner in the client’s story. Gina listens, supports, and helps people move toward goals they set for themselves. The work is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs.

Therapeutic approaches for online family and life work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person in front of her. It emphasizes acceptance, reflection, and helping clients discover their own solutions to family or personal problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors maintain stress or anxiety and teaches practical skills to change patterns and reduce symptoms. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, helps people understand and shift emotional responses in relationships so they can connect and resolve conflicts more effectively.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods that fit the client’s situation and adjust as needed over time to find the best mix of strategies.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work and family life and to keep continuity when routines change. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach coping skills, guide relationship work, and support parenting and life transitions in accessible, practical ways.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?

She supports a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, relationships, self‑esteem, parenting, grief, addiction, trauma, sleep and eating difficulties, bipolar and depression, and related concerns.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is person-centered and strengths-oriented, using practical tools from cognitive behavioral work, emotionally-focused methods, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to address real-life problems.

What is her clinical background?

She holds a doctoral degree from Drew University in individual and family counseling and has about 20 years of counseling experience working in school systems and independent practice.

Where is she licensed and based?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, credential NJ LPC 37PC00221400, and is based in New Jersey.

Can sessions be conducted in languages other than English?

Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.

What formats are available for sessions?

Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and preferences.

How are fees and payment handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Self esteem

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 20 years
Licensed: New Jersey
Languages: English

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