About Dina
Dina Mooney is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California who helps people facing anxiety and related challenges. She focuses on building practical skills and steady support so clients can handle stressful moments and painful memories. Dina uses a calm, straightforward style and centers the client's own goals and strengths.
She brings seven years of clinical experience to conversations about addiction, trauma, grief, anger, and low self-esteem. Sessions are aimed at clear, manageable steps rather than long theory talks.
Background and approach
Dina listens for patterns such as attachment wounds, codependency, or family-of-origin issues and helps people name what feels stuck. Dina works with a wide range of concerns including relationship and communication problems, body-image and eating-related issues, divorce and blended family stress, and substance use struggles. She also supports people coping with major life changes and disruptive mood challenges like DMDD symptoms.
Treatment combines practical coping tools with attention to how past losses or abuse shape present reactions. Her approach treats clients as experts on their own lives. Dina collaborates to set goals, try small experiments between sessions, and track progress.
She emphasizes straightforward strategies for managing intense feelings and improving day-to-day functioning. Sessions are offered in English and are provided in a variety of online formats. People looking for calm, skill-focused support for anxiety and related concerns will find a clear, compassionate guide in Dina.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Dina uses evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and understanding how past events affect present feelings. One common approach is skills-based coping work that teaches breathing, grounding, and emotion regulation strategies to manage anxiety and intense emotions in the moment. This kind of work suits people who want concrete tools to reduce panic, anger, or stress.She also incorporates relational and attachment-focused work that looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps people notice repeated dynamics such as codependency, abandonment concerns, or communication problems and try new ways of relating. That work often involves reflecting on patterns and practicing new behaviors between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then tailor methods that fit those needs. Together they will adjust techniques and pacing based on what proves most helpful.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone send updates or reflections between meetings. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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