Gina is a licensed psychotherapist, mental health educator, and media consultant in New York City. In practice for nearly two decades, she has helped thousands of people seeking treatment for trauma, grief, as well as challenging life experiences and transitions. This includes work with Holocaust survivors at 92Y, as well as being a clinical director for a Mt. Sinai Hospital Outpatient Program specializing in addictions. She received her master’s degree in social work with a specialty in trauma from New York University. Gina’s book, Moving On Doesn’t Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss, (Hachette) explores all aspects of loss, with tools, reflections and exercises to help people navigate the early grief experience.
On This Episode we talk:
- her childhood and the confidence she had at a young age to be a leader
- singing and getting into musical theater and thinking she would become a professional singer
- studying singing in college and quickly realizing it wasn’t for her
- how she ended up starting her new college focus
- what led her to becoming a therapist
- her work with Holocaust survivors and what they shared with her that had been locked away for so long
- why she chose trauma and grief as her specialities
- the recurring themes she sees with her private clients and how that shaped her book and perhaps the next one.
- the awkwardness of wanting to be there for someone in grief but not knowing the best way to do that.
- how often people don’t say the best things, but knowing it comes from a place of love.
- And so much more!
Gina’s first book just came out and THANK GOODNESS! We all need more grief support because grief does not just come from the death of a loved one. We go through her journey through musical theater, to becoming a therapist, to her work with Holocaust survivors to why THIS is her first book and more!
Learn more about Gina and get her book: Moving on Doesn’t Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss at https://ginamoffa.com/
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