Dr. Gina Ligonde
Practical support for stress and family challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Gina
Dr. Gina Ligonde uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress and strengthen family life. She is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, practicing in New York with 26 years of experience.
Gina focuses on clear, realistic steps rather than jargon. She talks through problems and helps clients develop habits that make daily life easier. She works with common concerns such as anxiety, relationship strain, family conflict, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her background includes supporting people facing caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and workplace difficulties. She also addresses topics like communication problems, control issues, grief over separation, and feelings of guilt or shame. Therapy with her is tailored to each person.
She listens, helps set practical goals, and adjusts the plan as needed. Sessions are grounded in real-world strategies you can try between meetings. Gina aims to make the first steps feel manageable.
She recognizes that beginning therapy can feel hard and offers calm, respectful guidance. Conversations are direct but warm, focused on what will help most now. Her practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and she works in English in New York.
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Dr. Gina Ligonde uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people cope with stress and family challenges. One common approach focuses on teaching skills to manage anxiety and panic symptoms, like breathing exercises and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. Another approach emphasizes improving communication and problem-solving within families, helping people speak more clearly and set workable boundaries.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, then suggest methods that match those priorities. Together they track progress and adjust the plan when needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation from home. Phone sessions work when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging provide shorter, on-the-go check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Gina
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point