Dr. Gina Scarano-Osika
Trusted New York psychologist for parents and adults
- Credentials
- NY Psychologist 012289
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Gina
Dr. Gina Scarano-Osika is a New York psychologist with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and many other life challenges. She is listed as NY Psychologist 012289 and brings a warm, inviting presence to sessions.
She understands that starting therapy can feel hard and acknowledges that first step. Her work blends practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with emotion regulation skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She also draws on attachment-focused ideas from her relational training at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.
Background and approach
Those approaches are used together to help clients notice patterns, build new skills, and make steady changes. Gina has long experience addressing issues such as parenting, relationships, trauma and abuse, grief, eating concerns, addictions, sleep problems, and intimacy-related worries. She also helps people facing major life transitions, career questions, and struggles with self-esteem.
Her practice includes additional focuses like adoption and foster care, blended family issues, and aging concerns. She and her husband started a independent practice two decades ago and expanded it from two providers to a larger team of clinicians. That background informs how she thinks about care and collaboration.
Sessions are offered in English and she works with clients in New York as well as international clients. Gina uses a straightforward, responsive style. She listens carefully, offers concrete strategies, and helps people match techniques to real-life problems.
The goal is steady progress people can use day to day.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice how they connect and respond to others and is useful for relationship and parenting concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Over time they adjust tools and strategies so clients can try what feels most useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between sessions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, guide practice, and track progress without requiring travel.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point