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Shing Chin (Alice) Ginkens, LPCC, LPC

Based in California Online sessions

Practical support for parenting and family strain

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Years in practice
20
Credentials
LPCC, LPC
Licensed in
Oklahoma, California
Languages
English, Mandarin, Cantonese
Focus
Family conflicts
Focus
Trauma and abuse
Focus
Parenting issues
About

About Shing

Shing Chin (Alice) Ginkens helps people facing family strain, parenting challenges, trauma, anxiety, depression, and stress. She speaks English, Mandarin, and Cantonese and brings 20 years of clinical experience to each conversation. Alice aims to create a calm, respectful space where parents can talk through what feels overwhelming and start to find clearer steps forward.

Alice holds LPCC and LPC credentials and is licensed in California and Oklahoma. She has worked in the field since 2002, and she draws on a range of well-established approaches to match each person’s needs.

Background and approach

Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer communication, and strategies to manage strong emotions and difficult memories. In meetings she listens closely and tailors a plan from the first sessions. That plan may include emotion-focused work to repair relationship patterns, cognitive tools to change unhelpful thoughts, or trauma-focused processing when past events keep affecting daily life.

The emphasis is on doable steps parents can try between meetings. Alice also addresses concerns like grief, addiction, self-esteem, life transitions, and workplace stress. She supports people working through separation, blended family issues, codependency, and caregiver stress.

Her background makes her comfortable talking about intimacy, infidelity, and midlife concerns. Sessions can feel direct and practical while staying warm and nonjudgmental. People who choose her often want a steady guide to help them sort priorities, repair strained relationships, and build routines that actually work at home.

Focus areas and approaches

What Shing works with

Everything Shing lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Shing helps people with.

Approaches Shing lists

Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.

Online support

Therapeutic approaches for online parenting and trauma work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small actions that matter even when feelings are hard to face. It is useful for stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, and decisions that feel stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like low mood, anxiety, and anger. That approach gives clear tools to practice between sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, centers on improving how people express and respond to emotions in close relationships and can help repair patterns that cause distance or repeated conflict.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alice will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. Sessions can mix elements from different approaches so the plan aligns with what feels most useful for the client.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to support different needs and schedules. Video is helpful for longer conversations and role-play, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit a short check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into parenting routines, work breaks, or caregiving schedules while keeping the focus on usable strategies and steady progress.
Questions

Questions people ask about Shing

What kinds of problems does she help with?

Alice works with family conflict, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, anxiety, addiction concerns, grief, intimacy issues, low self-esteem, career stress, and coping with life changes.

What is her general therapy style?

She combines client-centered listening with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral and emotion-focused approaches to help people make concrete changes.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has practiced professionally since 2002, bringing about 20 years of experience supporting people with family and trauma-related concerns.

Where is she licensed and based?

She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and is licensed in California and Oklahoma.

Which languages are available for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese, and she also accepts international clients.

What session formats are offered?

She meets using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

How are fees handled?

Costs vary by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

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