About Gina Totino
Gina Totino, LCSW, is passionate about guiding her clients toward balance, clarity, and a deeper sense of peace. With a foundation in mindfulness and emotional intelligence, she takes an integrative, evidence-based approach tailored to everyone’s unique experiences and inner world.
Gina believes that behavior is our first language; she works closely with her clients to decode it, helping them shift from reaction to response, from judgment to curiosity. Whether navigating interpersonal challenges or exploring emotional patterns, she offers a supportive space to build insight, resilience, and connection.
Our Collaborative Approach
Gina believes that behavior is our first language; she works closely with her clients to decode it, helping them shift from reaction to response, from judgment to curiosity. Whether navigating interpersonal challenges or exploring emotional patterns, she offers a supportive space to build insight, resilience, and connection.
Education & Licensure
🎓 BA – Washington University in St. Louis
🎓 Master of Social Work (with Honors) – Rutgers University
✔ Licensed in the State of New Jersey
✔ Licensed in the State of Florida
Trauma Specialization
Gina specializes in trauma and helps individuals who have experienced:
- Guilt vs. Shame
- Envy vs. Jealousy
- Foster Emotional Clarity
- Personal Growth
- Traumatic car accidents
- Medical trauma
- Childhood developmental or attachment trauma
Trained in:
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
- DBT for high conflict couples
- Emotion focused therapy (EFT-couples therapy)
- Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFS - couples therapy)
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
- Interpersonal Process Therapy (IPT)
- Solution focused short term therapy
- Emotion Freedom Technique (Tapping)
Treatment Modalities
Gina specializes in trauma and helps individuals who have experienced:
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- IFS-informed couples therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping)
Contact Us
Reach out to begin your healing journey with Light Street Psychotherapy.