About Katina
Katina (Tina) Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and trauma. She brings 26 years of clinical experience and a practical, down-to-earth manner to sessions. Tina speaks English and works with people who want clearer thinking and more emotional balance.
Her style is warm and straightforward. She focuses on what matters most to each person and uses approaches that fit the situation.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking through problems, learning new ways to respond, and practicing small skills between meetings. Tina uses client-centered ideas to follow the client's lead and build on strengths. She also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thinking and change behavior.
Emotionally-focused and mindfulness strategies are available when the goal is more emotional awareness and connection. Over her career she has supported people dealing with grief, addictions, eating and food-related issues, parenting stress, intimacy concerns, and coping with life changes. Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, bipolar challenges, and complex concerns such as co-morbidity and codependency.
Based in Indiana, Tina holds an Indiana Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential - LMHC. She offers multiple session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, and she accepts international clients. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step is used to pair you with a therapist.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on the person's experience and strengths. The therapist listens closely and adapts the pace and goals to what feels most helpful, which is useful for relationship and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and change patterns. It is practical for stress, anxiety, depression, and many daily challenges.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and express emotions and improve emotional connections. It can be especially useful for intimacy issues and for processing trauma-related emotions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to choose methods that match a client's goals, preferences, and needs, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging provide a way to stay connected between sessions and to share thoughts in writing. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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