Gainesville Community Counseling Center

07/01/2025

Your mental health matters. Call us at 352-448-9120 to schedule a session with our empathetic therapists. Available tomorrow! 🌞👐

06/30/2025

If you've been in Larry's office, you've seen the hydroponics tower which was patiently waiting to be filled and used. We won't say how long it sat there, but it was finally filled and planted. Today we saw evidence of seeds coming to life.

06/25/2025

Therapy is a journey, not a race. 💭 Shalisa, a dedicated Registered Mental Health Counseling Intern, brings a human-first, client-second approach to every session. Through storytelling, creative expression, and a person-centered philosophy, she empowers clients to face their past, live in their present, and prepare for their future. Change takes time, trust, and effort—but every small step matters. ✨

Are you ready to take the next step toward healing? Reflect on your own path, or consider exploring therapy to uncover what’s possible. 🌱

06/11/2025

Meet Koraima Maldonado Rivera (she/her), MSW, a bilingual clinical social worker dedicated to helping teens and adults heal, grow, and reclaim their well-being. Koraima provides a compassionate, nonjudgmental space where her clients feel supported and empowered to face challenges like trauma, anxiety, life transitions, and substance use. With experience spanning public housing communities, schools, outpatient substance abuse clinics, and behavioral health units, she now calls Florida home and serves as a substance abuse clinician.

Koraima integrates evidence-based approaches like CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy, ensuring her care is trauma-informed and culturally responsive. Guided by values like respect, justice, and solidarity, she’s here to help you build resilience and move forward with confidence.
🌟 Visit our website to learn more about working with Koraima!

Conozcan a Koraima Maldonado Rivera (ella), MSW, una trabajadora social clínica bilingüe dedicada a ayudar a adolescentes y adultos a sanar, crecer y recuperar su bienestar. Koraima ofrece un espacio compasivo y sin juicios donde sus clientes se sienten apoyados y empoderados para enfrentar desafíos como el trauma, la ansiedad, transiciones de vida y el uso de sustancias. Con experiencia en comunidades de vivienda pública, escuelas, clínicas ambulatorias de abuso de sustancias y unidades de salud conductual, ahora vive en Florida como clínica enfocada en el abuso de sustancias.

Koraima utiliza enfoques basados en evidencia como CBT, DBT, Entrevistas Motivacionales y Terapia Centrada en Soluciones, asegurando que su atención sea informada por el trauma y culturalmente receptiva. Guiada por valores como respeto, justicia y solidaridad, está aquí para ayudarte a desarrollar resiliencia y avanzar con confianza.
🌟 Visita nuestro sitio web para saber más sobre trabajar con Koraima.

06/09/2025

🌈 GinaMarie (she/we) is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who brings a trauma-informed, collaborative, and deeply respectful approach to therapy, honoring each individual. 💛

✨ As a q***r and neurodistinct therapist, GinaMarie values creating safe, warm spaces where clients’ full identities and lived experiences are seen and celebrated. By using methods such as Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), she helps clients reconnect with the wisdom and love already within them. 💡

🌱 With nearly 20 years of experience as an educator and currently pursuing a Counseling PhD at UF, GinaMarie is equally passionate about mentoring future therapists. Her approach to healing and growth incorporates storytelling, curiosity, and play.

✍️ She believes every person is the main character in their life story and is dedicated to supporting clients in living fully and unapologetically. Schedule a session today through our website!

Starting on Friday June 20th, GinaMarie will have drop in session times available from 1pm-5pm on Fridays!

Please note that GinaMarie cannot work with any current University of Florida students.

05/13/2025

05/07/2025

Your mental health matters—this month and every month. 💚 Prioritize self-care, staying connected, and embrace progress over perfection. Whether it's mindfulness, movement, or meaningful conversations, take time for what nourishes your mind. Take a walk, journal your thoughts, get that extra hour of sleep, whatever self care might look like for you!
Don't be afraid to ask for help! Reach out to those closest to you if you're having a hard time working through something. Sometimes just having someone listen to what you've got going on can help you process it.

05/01/2025

Happy Mental Health Awareness Month everyone! As you 💚May💚 know it's Mental Health Awareness month, and this year we plan to continue to bring you mental health resources and tools you can use in your everyday life to put your mental health first! All month long, tune in to our social media pages for posts on different therapy modalities and things you can do everyday to support your mental health!

04/25/2025

The Amazing Give 2025 has officially ended! On behalf of everyone here at Gainesville Community Counseling Center, we would like to thank everyone who took time out of their day to interact with our social media, anyone who shared posts, and all those who were able to donate! We are so lucky to be part of such a wonderful community here in Gainesville, and we look forward to continuing to support our community's mental health! We hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and thank you again for participating in this year’s Amazing Give with us!

04/24/2025

Only 3 hours left of The Amazing Give! Every dollar counts towards helping us continue to provide mental health services to our community. Thanks to your donations, we can maintain our lower sliding scale rates so more people can sign up for mental health services, should they be searching for them! We have been lucky enough to provide mental health services in the city of Gainesville for several years now, and we will keep supporting our community as best we can for many years to come! Please keep sharing our posts and spreading the word, The Amazing Give isn't over yet! If you are able to please consider donating by visiting the link in our bio!

04/24/2025

Today is the day! The Amazing Give has officially started! From now until 8pm, keep an eye out on our social medias for different posts about our non profit and even a video introducing our newest counselor! Please share any of our posts today with your friends and family. Spread the word and help us support our community! If you are able to donate, please visit "The Amazing Give" link in our bio!