Ginger King
Supportive LCSW for practical family challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ginger
Ginger King is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She practices in Wisconsin and brings 20 years of experience to each session. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at practical steps parents and caretakers can use right away.
Ginger blends several evidence-based methods to match each person’s needs. She uses clear tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
She also leans on client-centered therapy to create a respectful, accepting space for conversations about identity and values. Her work covers relationship concerns, family and parenting matters, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and anger. She also addresses caregiver stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster care issues, and challenges tied to aging or attachment.
Sessions focus on building coping skills and clearer communication rather than complex jargon. Ginger describes therapy as a collaborative process. She listens first, then helps set small, achievable goals.
Over time people learn practical strategies for managing emotions, improving relationships, and making purposeful life changes. People who choose her can expect straightforward guidance, a focus on real-life solutions, and attention to cultural and personal context. Her approach aims to support steady progress and greater day-to-day functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ginger uses cognitive behavioral therapy to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. She also draws on client-centered therapy to create an accepting atmosphere where clients feel heard and can explore identity and values. Finally, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is used to help people notice difficult feelings without being ruled by them while still acting on chosen values.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then recommend tools or combinations of methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to stay connected during life transitions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, review progress, and check in between longer conversations.
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
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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