Dr. Gina Scarano-Osika, NY Psychologist
Experienced psychologist focused on practical change
Book with GinaWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
- Depression
How Gina works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- NY Psychologist
- Licensed in
- New York
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Gina
Dr. Gina Scarano-Osika is a New York psychologist with 25 years of experience. She brings a warm, approachable manner to sessions and helps people navigate strong emotions and life changes.
Her credentials include NY Psychologist 012289 and she practices from New York. She blends practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy with skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy. That combination is used to help people manage anger, anxiety, depression, and stress.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based ideas to address relationship and intimacy concerns. Dr. Scarano-Osika has a long history in independent practice.
She and her husband started a practice two decades ago that expanded to include many providers. That background gives her experience coordinating care and seeing a wide range of concerns. In sessions she keeps language straightforward and focuses on concrete strategies.
People can expect to work on skill building, coping plans, and clearer communication about needs and boundaries. She also helps with grief, addiction-related issues, sleep problems, and self-esteem struggles. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person.
She acknowledges that starting therapy can be hard and aims to make the first steps easier. Practical goals and small changes are emphasized alongside understanding the roots of a problem.
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
- Depression
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Gina lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand how they relate to others and address intimacy or trust problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns. That approach is useful for anger, anxiety, and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper weekly sessions when face-to-face interaction matters. Phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging can support brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when writing things out helps clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping focus on practical skill building.
Questions people ask about Gina
What concerns does she address?
She works with people on stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep and parenting concerns, ADHD, bipolar issues, and related areas listed in her specialties.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm and practical. She uses clear language, teaches coping skills, and focuses on concrete steps people can use between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 25 years of experience as a practicing psychologist and has run a independent practice that grew over two decades.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is listed as NY Psychologist 012289 and is based in New York.
Are sessions available in other languages or countries?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats does she offer?
She works with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide different ways to connect.
How does billing and cost work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.