Shing Chin (Alice) Ginkens, LPCC, LPC

Shing Chin (Alice) Ginkens is a licensed counselor who helps people facing a wide range of life challenges. She brings two decades of experience to conversations about anxiety, depression, parenting stress, addiction, relationship struggles, and midlife transitions. Alice speaks English, Mandarin, and Cantonese and practices in California. Alice says reaching out is a brave first step. She listens with respect and empathy and works to understand each person's story before suggesting next steps. Sessions focus on practical ways to reduce distress and build clearer choices for the future. Her background includes long clinical experience beginning in 2002 and licensure as an LPCC and an LPC in 2005. That combination of practice and licensing informs how she shapes treatment plans and responds to setbacks and progress. Alice draws from several therapy approaches to match the needs of the person in front of her. She uses methods that look at thoughts and behaviors, help people clarify values and goals, address relationship patterns, and process traumatic memories when needed. People who come for help can expect collaborative care. Alice tailors work to fit daily life and the problems at hand, whether managing anger, coping after loss, sorting through relationship pain, or navigating career and life-purpose questions.

How therapy approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values even when uncomfortable feelings remain. It suits people who want to build life direction and resilience. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on patterns in close relationships and helps people shift how they express and respond emotionally to one another.

Finding the right approach is part of the early work. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, life goals, and personal preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That collaboration may mean combining techniques from different approaches to match what actually helps.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the available session formats before booking since specific delivery options are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and cut travel time so sessions are more consistent. Many people find that structured CBT exercises, ACT values work, and EFT conversations can adapt well to remote sessions when planned together with a licensed professional.