Gina Spielman
Compassionate, practical therapy for life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Gina
Gina Spielman is a licensed clinical social worker with 27 years of experience who draws on practical, person-centered methods to help people cope with hard life moments. She uses straightforward conversation and concrete tools to address concerns like depression, anxiety, stress, and parenting. Gina keeps sessions focused on what matters most to each person and helps make plans that fit everyday life.
Gina offers support for relationship and family concerns, grief, career changes, and trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She also helps with sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, caregiving stress, and chronic illness challenges. Her work includes attention to attachment issues, blended family dynamics, and the emotional impact of serious health events such as cancer. Her style blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Jungian ideas, existential questions, and a client-centered stance.
That means she helps people notice thoughts and feelings, try small behavior changes, and explore deeper values and meaning when needed. Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on useful steps between meetings. Gina practices in Illinois and holds LCSW licensure.
She supports people working through life transitions, career decisions, and ongoing stress related to caregiving or long-term health issues. Gina can discuss incorporating faith into care when a client prefers that approach. When someone reaches out, she starts by listening to what is most urgent.
From there she helps set clear goals and offers tools to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. Her aim is steady progress and practical coping strategies that fit a person’s real life.
How Gina’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily routines. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s experience, offering empathic listening and collaborative problem solving to build a stronger sense of agency and self-understanding.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Gina works with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time and checks in regularly to make sure the plan remains useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet from home or work, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and use brief check-ins when useful between longer appointments. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, worksheets, and mindfulness practices to work well in these formats, so therapy can stay practical and focused even when meetings happen remotely.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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