Gin Anderson, CMHC

 Gin Anderson is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor who is passionate about helping children, adolescents, adults, and families develop greater emotional understanding, strengthen relationships, and feel more connected to themselves and the people who matter most to them.

Gin approaches therapy from a trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and relationship-based perspective. She believes that behavior often communicates something deeper and works to understand the experiences, emotions, and relational patterns underneath a person’s struggles rather than focusing solely on symptoms. Her approach is warm, curious, collaborative, and grounded in the belief that meaningful change happens within relationships where people feel safe, understood, and accepted.

Gin has extensive experience working with children and families impacted by early developmental trauma, adoption and foster care, attachment disruptions, anxiety, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, emotional and behavioral dysregulation, and neurodevelopmental differences. She particularly enjoys supporting parents in better understanding their child’s behavior, strengthening connection, and developing ways of responding that balance empathy and nurturance with structure, consistency, and healthy boundaries.

Her clinical work integrates attachment-based and psychodynamic approaches, interpersonal process therapy, play and expressive interventions, PACE principles, Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), and elements of CBT and DBT. Gin tailors treatment to each individual and family, recognizing that there is no single approach that works for everyone. Gin also works with adults navigating anxiety, relationships, life transitions, family-of-origin experiences, identity, boundaries, and patterns that may no longer serve them. She provides a space for clients to slow down, become curious about themselves, explore difficult emotions, and better understand how past experiences may influence present relationships and choices.

Before becoming a therapist, Gin worked as a teacher and owned an outdoor recreation business in Juneau, Alaska. She also has a background in music, holding both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the field. These varied experiences have shaped her appreciation for creativity, individuality, humor, movement, and the many different ways people find connection and meaning. Outside of the therapy room, Gin enjoys weightlifting, hiking, music, good coffee, and spending time outdoors. She brings warmth, authenticity, curiosity, and humor into her work and strives to create a therapeutic relationship where clients can show up as themselves while doing the challenging—and often deeply meaningful—work of growing and healing. She recently moved back home to Alaska and sees clients virtually.