Gina Porter
Support for stress, mood, and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Tennessee, Alabama, Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Gina
Gina Porter is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience who focuses on helping people manage stress, mood struggles, and parenting concerns. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what a person is facing. Sessions are paced to each person’s comfort and needs.
Gina aims to help people find practical steps that fit their everyday life. Her work includes support for anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, bipolar challenges, sleep problems, and life changes.
Background and approach
She also pays attention to related issues like codependency, eating and food-related problems, family of origin concerns, postpartum depression, and seasonal affective disorder. She brings experience from inpatient, outpatient, substance abuse, and independent practice settings. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and skills.
Gina uses common tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work. Those methods guide conversations and practice between sessions so people can try new ways of coping. Her style is nonjudgmental and empowering.
She helps people name difficult feelings such as shame, guilt, fear, or anger and then works with them to develop healthier responses. The aim is better mood, reduced stress, and more effective relationships. Gina practices in Alabama as a licensed clinical social worker.
She communicates in English and works with adults who are looking for practical, skills-based help to change patterns that no longer serve them.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
CBT or cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It’s often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and low mood by practicing new ways of thinking and small behavioral steps.DBT or dialectical behavior therapy teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication, which can be useful for anger, mood swings, and stress.
Mindfulness therapy encourages present-moment awareness and simple practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. It pairs well with other skills-based work when stress or rumination are a problem.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Gina collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and daily life. Together they adapt techniques and try different tools until something is helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These formats let people work on skills between home, work, and family responsibilities and make it easier to keep regular appointments. They also allow follow-up and brief check-ins when practice or adjustments are needed.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Sleeping disorders
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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