Gina Marqua, LCSW

Gina Marqua is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 10 years of clinical experience who supports people navigating trauma, addiction, and major life transitions. Licensed in both Tennessee and Indiana, she brings a grounded, compassionate approach that blends evidence-based techniques with a Christian-informed perspective, offering a respectful space for clients to explore healing and growth.

Her practice focuses on complex emotional issues including substance use, chronic pain, mood disorders, attachment difficulties, and family conflict. She has worked with a wide range of populations such as veterans, first responders, survivors of abuse, and individuals living with mood and attachment challenges, tailoring care to each person s history and strengths.

Gina uses clinically supported strategies to help clients work through guilt, shame, and past experiences while building practical coping skills. She is particularly committed to assisting those navigating addiction, complicated family dynamics, and the emotional effects of chronic illness. With an emphasis on individualized, trauma-informed care, she partners with clients to address panic, relationship struggles, grief, and the search for deeper self-understanding, supporting steps toward greater emotional resilience and wellbeing.

Therapeutic approaches and online care options

Gina Marqua integrates approaches that address both the roots of emotional distress and the skills needed for day to day coping. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early connections shape current responses to intimacy and abandonment concerns. This approach can be helpful for people struggling with relationship challenges, attachment issues, and family dynamics.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, providing practical strategies for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used to help process traumatic memories and reduce the intensity of distressing recollections, making it relevant for survivors of abuse and other trauma.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Gina works with clients to explore goals, preferences, and life circumstances and then tailors a plan that combines methods as needed, adjusting over time to find the best fit.

Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and connect with licensed professionals from home or work while preserving the therapeutic relationship and momentum.