About Gina
Gina Cardines is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC). She has seven years as a licensed therapist and more than two decades in the mental health field overall. Gina focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, struggling with mood, or juggling addiction and trauma concerns.
She also assists clients navigating grief, relationship strain, parenting strain, and ADHD-related challenges. In sessions she offers straightforward feedback and steady acceptance.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to help people notice patterns, try new habits, and make choices that feel manageable. Gina adapts what she uses to each person rather than sticking to a single method. Her background includes long experience supporting survivors of serious trauma and people dealing with substance issues.
That work shaped how she balances practical skills with listening and personal storytelling. Gina draws on a mix of approaches to meet immediate needs while addressing deeper history. Clients can expect practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered listening and motivation-focused techniques.
She often uses narrative and solution-focused ideas to help people rewrite difficult parts of their story and set reachable goals. The pace and focus are set together during early sessions. Gina practices from Texas and offers remote options including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
She helps clients pick session formats that fit their schedule and daily life.
How Gina’s approaches translate to online care
Gina uses Client-Centered Therapy to prioritize each person's perspective and create space for honest conversation. That means her work begins with listening and following the client's lead to set goals and topics for change.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks problems down into thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT provides simple exercises and skills people can practice between sessions to manage anxiety, mood shifts, and impulsivity.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Gina helps clients choose methods that match their goals and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. The collaboration starts in the first few meetings and continues as needs change.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations where seeing facial cues helps. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break during work or when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, scheduling, or ongoing support between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to get help without major travel and to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Florida
- Languages
- English
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