About Gina
Gina Marqua is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage trauma, addiction, mood concerns, and ADHD. She brings ten years of clinical experience and a calm, straightforward style to sessions. Gina practices in Tennessee and holds licensure in both Tennessee and Indiana.
Her work centers on understanding how past experiences shape present reactions. She helps people name patterns that cause stress, anxiety, or relationship strain. Sessions aim to develop practical skills for coping and reduce the hold of shame and guilt.
Background and approach
Gina blends several evidence-informed approaches to meet each person's needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships affect behavior. Cognitive behavioral techniques help people notice and change unhelpful thinking.
When trauma is central, she may incorporate EMDR to process painful memories. She has supported people facing addictions, chronic pain, grief, and the fallout of abuse. Gina also works with those managing bipolar disorder, anger, and complex family concerns.
Her practice includes attention to adoption and foster care issues, attachment difficulties, and first responder-related stress. Gina describes her outlook as compassionate and nonjudgmental, with space for personal values to be part of care when the client requests it. She focuses on short, clear goals and concrete tools that someone can use between sessions.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How Gina's Approaches Translate Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape reactions and sense of safety. Online sessions can use this framework to identify patterns in relationships and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing thoughts and behaviors and then testing small changes. That approach works well over video or messaging because goals and homework can be tracked between sessions. When trauma is a central concern, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, can be used to help process painful memories through guided attention and gentle pacing.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, past experiences, and preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and have fuller conversations. Phone sessions can be an easier option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to get support between appointments or to use therapy without being on camera. These options let people fit sessions around work, caregiving, or mobility limits while using the therapeutic approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Indiana
- Languages
- English
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