HI. I’m Gina (She’her/hers). 

Let me tell you what I’ve been up to…

Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD, CPC is a couples therapist turned relationship coach, retreat leader, and author specializing in intimacy, authenticity, shame-resilience, and connected communication for diverse relationships. 

Since 2007 she’s supported clients creating fulfilling integrity-based relationships according to their own rules. In 2020, she published her first book, Love More Fight Less, A Communication Workbook for Every Couple with Penguin Random House.

Gina was named Portland’s Best Life Coach in 2018, 2019, and 2020 and has taught psychology courses, communication workshops, couples intimacy retreats, and guest lectured on alternative relationships and sex-positive therapy at universities across the US. Students love her no-nonsense “real talk” presentation style.

Her podcast, Swoon has helped over 10,000 listeners build a more compassionate, creative, confident, and fulfilled society.  Gina offers practical, proven skills to transform relationships in deeply meaningful ways.  

As a retreat coach, her background in psychology, mediation, and communication training has enabled her to offer uniquely powerful tools to help clients overcome stuck patterns.  Her uniquely non-judgmental, inclusive approach to couples’ work puts even the most concerned participants at ease.  She is not your average sit-and-nod supporter- she'll call you out, and always help you grow.  

Gina has created thousands of tools, worksheets, guides and authored a few books to support relationships.  Get on her email list if you'd like access to her tool library.

When she’s not working you can find her in her lush backyard garden, hosting dinner parties, playing with her two adorable toddlers, or traveling with her partner, Rae.

Professional Bio:

Ten fun facts about Gina

  1. I’ve traveled to 75 countries outside of the United States and circumnavigated the globe. I’ve been fortunate to visit every state except Alaska and Vermont.

  2. I am an infertile mom, a foster mom, an adoptive mom, and a birth mom.

  3. I have a stellium in Scorpio (Rising, Sun, Venus, Mars, Mercury) and a Virgo moon.

  4. I’ve worked as an ice cream scooper, a bra fitter, a Dean of Students, a teacher, a camp director, an herbalist, and a model.

  5. I am an ENFP and an enneagram 8 with a strong 7 wing. My strengths finder top 5: futuristic, strategic, individualization, significance, and competition.

  6. My ancestors came to the United States from Sweden, Norway, Germany, and Italy and settled in Northern Minnesota, USA. I grew up in beautiful Door County, Wisconsin.

  7. I’m a practicing Green Witch and have a Ph.D. in Religious Studies focused on the earth-based spirituality of Nordic cultures.

  8. My go-to karaoke song is Hold On by Wilson Phillips.

  9. I’m also a Master Gardener, a tincture maker, a naturalist, an herbalist, and a Midwest US forager.

  10. I’ve married my partner, Rae, five times and we’ve never broken up.

  • "Gina saw something I had never realized and that changed everything."

    Sarah, Tampa, FL

  • "I’m sick of working with therapists and never really seeing anything change. Gina is different. I always walk away with things to think about and action steps to take. I feel like I’m making real progress for the first time."

    Sarah, Portland, OR

  • "I always thought there was something defective about me. You got me to understand I'm not alone and there are better ways to function."

    Kirsten, Queens, New York

  • "I don't know how we would still be married without you."

    Alex & Jayla, Minneapolis, MN

  • "In our very first session, Gina saw something in us I hadn’t realized in seven years together. That shifted everything."

    Sara & Tara, Portland ,OR

To grow my skills and stay current with trends in the fields of relationships, communication, and psychology I continue to enroll in professional learning opportunities.

I am a student of anti-racism. I am a white woman actively working to dismantle her own racism as created by covertly existing in and benefiting from a white supremacist society.

I am continuing to learn in the field of sexual health. There will never be an end to the learning I can do here, and Ante Up Sexuality Educator Training has been my favorite so far.

I am devoted to learning more about relationships and therefore have completed several certifications and receive ongoing supervision and group consultation to further my practice.

I practice yoga and meditation daily.

I use gardening to regulate my nervous system and connect with the natural world. You will hear about it if you choose to include me in your life.

Many of my ongoing certifications are listed all over this site. Read the almost full list here.

A few of my favorite things

What to Watch

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

The Biggest Little Farm

20 Feet From Stardom

13th

The Artist is Present

Blackfish

Shitts Creek

What to Listen

Radiolab (especially the Octomom episode)

This American Life

Stuff the Britts Stole - all of it.

Nice White Parents - all of it

Field Trip- the whole series

The Man Enough Podcast- the episode with Alok Vaid Menon

What to Read

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Red Tent, Anita Diamant

Set Boundaries, Find Peace, Nedra Glover Tawaab

Reclaiming Body Trust, Dana Studevardt & Hiilary Kinavey

Come As You Are, Emily Nagoski

Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel

Where to Visit

I have been fortunate to travel the world in my 40 years. Here are a couple of my favorite spots.

Breitenbush Hot Springs, Oregon, USA

Door County, Wisconsin

Dubrovnik, Croatia

All of Iceland. All of it.

Oaxaca, Mexico