Gina Spielman, LCSW

Gina Spielman is an Illinois licensed clinical social worker with 27 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, and major life changes. Gina uses a warm, practical style to guide people through hard moments and decisions.

She frames work around the person in front of her, listening first to understand what matters most. Sessions often include exercises to notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify values, and build small, manageable habits. Gina also brings talk therapy approaches that invite meaning-making and exploration of personal patterns.

Her background includes long-term clinical practice with adults facing career shifts, caregiving burdens, chronic illness, and the emotional fallout from loss or trauma. She helps people name feelings, set boundaries, and make day-to-day changes that feel doable. Gina can include faith-based perspectives when clients want that integrated into care.

People meet practical strategies alongside longer-term reflection. That might mean learning behavior-focused tools to sleep better, managing stress at work, or working through attachment and abandonment worries. Gina supports building clearer communication and coping skills that fit real life.

Her style is patient and down-to-earth. She aims to help clients move toward resilience and clearer choices. To begin, prospective clients use the site Start Therapy process to match and schedule time with her.

How Gina’s approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take action even when feelings are hard. It is useful for anxiety, depression, chronic health challenges, and life transitions because it focuses on meaningful goals rather than eliminating every unwanted thought. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful cycles. This approach can help with mood, worry, sleep, and coping with pain or stress.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Gina will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which approaches to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Confirm the current session options before booking, since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow follow-up from home or work when schedules permit. Some people find shorter check-ins helpful when they need quick support, while others prefer longer sessions for deeper reflection. The focus is on fitting sessions into everyday life and finding methods that help a person manage health challenges and stress without promising a specific outcome.