Works with
How Gina works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Montana
- Years in practice
- 19
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Gina
Gina Pate-Terry is a licensed clinical social worker in Montana with 19 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage strong emotions and life shifts. Gina takes a respectful, down-to-earth approach that aims to meet each person where they are.
She works with common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. Addictions, anger, and trauma are also areas she supports people through. Gina helps with relationship, intimacy, and workplace struggles as well as issues around self-esteem and body image.
Background and approach
Gina adapts conversation and practical steps to each person's needs. Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful, with ideas you can try between meetings. Her style is calm and compassionate, with attention to what is happening right now and what you want to change.
Over nearly two decades in the field she has helped people navigate career shifts, midlife challenges, chronic illness, and recovery from loss. She brings steady support when people face panic, social anxiety, or conflicted feelings about identity and purpose. Gina offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works with the therapist's calendar.
What Gina works with
Everything Gina lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Gina's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Practical approaches for managing strong emotions online
Gina draws on well-established, evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building coping skills. One approach emphasizes learning specific skills to manage intense emotions and reduce impulsive reactions, which can be useful for anger, panic, and stress. Another approach concentrates on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new ways of seeing situations to lessen anxiety and depressive symptoms.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they adjust the approach over time so it fits the person’s needs and day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people work face-to-face when schedules allow, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or those who prefer writing. These options help therapy fit into work breaks, caregiving routines, and other busy schedules.
Questions people ask about Gina
What concerns can Gina help with?
She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, anger, trauma, and related issues like self-esteem and body image.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Gina uses a down-to-earth, compassionate style focused on practical conversation and manageable steps to try between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 19 years of professional experience working as a licensed clinical social worker in Montana.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the credential MT LCSW and practices in Montana.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, fill out a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.