Everything you wish your counselor
could teach you all in one empowering resource

In “Stop Avoiding It” Licensed Professional Counselor Gina Yanovitch combines scripture, neuroscience, and practical strategies to create a roadmap for life’s challenges. Each chapter provides transformative insights and actionable steps— from self-awareness to forgiveness, boundaries to joy. Whether facing relationship struggles, personal setbacks, or fears, readers will discover tools for approaching life with confidence and grace. Gina weaves together God’s love with psychological wisdom, making this book ideal for both individual growth and small group discussions. “Stop Avoiding It” reveals how your brain was designed to help you face everything.

Gina Yanovitch

Gina is an experienced licensed therapist who runs a private practice in Phoenix, Arizona, specializing in trauma and relationships. She developed the transformative “Coping Skills for Life” online program, which she has refined and taught for many years. Gina lives with her husband of 34 years and has four grown children, two sons-in-law, and six grandchildren. She enjoys spending time with family, golfing with her husband, and watching the sunrise from the jacuzzi.

Stop Avoiding It is a must read! ”

As an author and Executive Coach, I have benefitted from the coping skills addressed in Gina’s book on a professional and personal level. These skills of self-awareness, active listening, radical acceptance, finding joy in sorrow, boundaries, forgiveness, faith, and gratitude have had a profound impact on my work with clients and understanding my own perspective. Every individual will benefit from reading this book as it is applicable to all relationships and issues we face. Gina’s personal stories and thought -provoking questions at the end of each chapter help the reader clearly identify each skill and how best to apply them to their lives.

Debra Boblitt
Author: BOLD Mission Courageously Pursue Your Calling
Debra Boblitt Consulting, LLC

Book a Speaking Engagement

Gina brings coping skills to life in her speaking engagements where she infuses scripture, science and skills making the experience of learning even more fun and rewarding.