About Gino
Gino Rubens is a licensed counselor who offers short-term and ongoing support for people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. He holds LPC and LMHC credentials and practices from South Carolina. He aims to help people reconnect with themselves and feel more pleasure in daily life.
Gino draws on practical skills from cognitive-behavioral approaches and dialectical behavior therapy to teach coping tools. He also uses mindfulness and acceptance strategies to help people tolerate difficult feelings and focus on values.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to combine skill practice with real-life problem solving. He emphasizes a straightforward, compassionate style. Gino listens closely and asks questions that get to what matters most.
He works with each person to build a plan that fits their goals and life circumstances rather than offering one-size-fits-all solutions. In session, Gino uses clear explanations and simple exercises you can try between meetings. He offers psychoeducation about how mood and behavior interact, and then practices new ways of coping together.
He aims to make difficult conversations feel manageable. People who choose him can expect collaborative sessions focused on small, concrete changes. Gino pays attention to patterns that keep problems going and helps people find workable alternatives.
He also supports processing past hurt when that is important to recovery.
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and when people feel stuck in unhelpful patterns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful habits. It is useful for anxiety, mood problems, and improving daily coping.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and life situation. That collaborative process may combine ACT, CBT, mindfulness, or DBT skills depending on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets you work face to face when that matters, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins or skills practice between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on real-life change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida, South Carolina
- Languages
- English