Therapist profile
Dr. Gina Gonzalezreyna, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - Relationships and Parenting
Continue with GinaAbout
- Attachment-based work
- CBT techniques
- English and Spanish
About Gina
Dr. Gina Gonzalezreyna is an LMFT licensed in California with 25 years of clinical experience. She works in English and Spanish and focuses on relationship and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and sleep problems.
She prefers a steady, practical style in sessions. She uses clear interventions and a down-to-earth tone, sometimes with a little humor. Gina helps people increase self-awareness and draw on the strengths they already have when facing hard moments at home or in life transitions.
Her work often addresses attachment and abandonment concerns, communication problems, blended family issues, and challenges that come up around pregnancy, postpartum, and new parenthood. She also supports people coping with shame, guilt, or family-of-origin wounds. Autism and young adult issues are among the additional areas she attends to.
Gina blends a few clinical approaches to suit each person’s needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Narrative and client-centered methods are used to clarify a person’s story and strengthen their voice.
She asks clients to keep a regular weekly appointment when possible and notes that scheduling is important to progress. Sessions may include video, phone, or live chat according to her practice notes; confirm the current session options before booking. Response times for messages generally allow 24 hours for replies.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationship patterns. It helps people understand strong emotional reactions and improve how they connect with partners or family members. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and testing new ways of coping to reduce anxiety, low mood, and sleep problems.The therapist treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust the focus as needed so the approach fits the client’s priorities and preferences.
The biography notes use of video, phone, and live chat in her practice, but confirm available session formats before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit regular weekly meetings into a busy family schedule, allow a shorter check-in when needed, or avoid travel time. Therapists and licensed professionals commonly adapt interventions used in person for remote work, so practical tools like brief behavioral experiments, thought records, or grounding exercises are often possible in online sessions.
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Experience
25+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English, Spanish
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What issues does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and parenting concerns, depression, grief, trauma and sleep difficulties, plus related topics such as attachment and blended family issues.
What style of therapy does she use?
She combines attachment-based, client-centered, cognitive behavioral, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches to match what a person needs in session.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 25 years of professional experience providing therapy in a range of relational and personal concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a California LMFT and practices from California.
Which languages are available?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Can people outside the US work with her?
She is not currently accepting international clients; sessions are offered to clients within the jurisdiction she practices.
How are sessions scheduled and paid for?
Cost varies with location and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.
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