Dr. Gina Ligonde

Dr. Gina Ligonde is a licensed clinical social worker based in New York with 26 years of professional experience. She holds an LCSW and has developed a broad clinical focus that includes stress and anxiety, relationship and family concerns, self esteem, and compassion fatigue. Her additional areas of work include caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, communication difficulties, control issues, divorce and separation, and related life transitions. She approaches each referral with attention to respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and she adapts the conversation and the treatment plan to the particular needs of the individual. Her profile emphasizes practical concerns such as panic, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, midlife challenges, financial stress, and issues that commonly affect women and workplace functioning. Dr. Ligonde frames clinical work as collaborative and tailored, acknowledging the effort involved in starting therapy. She recognizes that taking the first step requires courage and offers a structured, person-centered process that reflects her years of practice and the range of concerns she addresses.