Shing Chin (Alice) Ginkens
Compassionate practical help for family stress
- Credentials
- LPCC, LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Oklahoma, California
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shing
Shing Chin (Alice) Ginkens offers calm, direct support for people facing family stress and parenting challenges. She speaks English, Mandarin, and Cantonese, so clients can choose the language that feels clearest. Alice is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, and relationship pain.
Alice focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier. She listens first, then helps people spot patterns that keep problems stuck.
Background and approach
Sessions mix real-world strategies and emotional work so clients can try new ways of handling conflict, grief, or strong feelings. Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, anger management, addictions, and parenting concerns. She also spends time on family of origin issues, blended family stress, and difficulties that follow separation or divorce.
Those looking for help with self-esteem, life transitions, or career direction will find concrete support here. Alice blends evidence-based tools such as cognitive behavioral techniques, emotion-focused interventions, and trauma work like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. She adapts methods to fit each person’s pace and goals rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
People who prefer working online can meet her from California. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works for both client and therapist.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and trauma work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which helps with mood, anger, and anxiety. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a trauma-focused method that helps process distressing memories so they have less power in daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Sessions may mix approaches over time so clients get what helps most in practice.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay connected. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions work when video is not possible, and live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing tracking between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule regular work, try techniques in daily life, and maintain continuity of care for people juggling family and parenting demands.
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, California
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese
Next step
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