About Nina
Nina Lupo is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience. She works with adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, life changes, and parenting challenges. Her style is direct but compassionate, focused on practical steps that help people feel steadier fast.
Nina draws on straightforward, goal-oriented methods. She helps people identify patterns that keep them stuck and then practices new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions often include clear strategies, supportive reflection, and short-term tools to reduce overwhelm and manage panic or mood shifts. Her background includes work in non-profit settings, independent practice, and education. She completed undergraduate studies at the University of Washington and graduate work at Pepperdine University in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage, Family, and Child Therapy.
Early work included involvement with marital research that shaped her interest in relationships. Nina’s roles have included counselor, case manager, advocate, consultant, supervisor, and therapist. That variety gives her experience with different life stages and situations, especially where relationship patterns and family history matter.
She brings practical problem solving and real-world skills to sessions. Therapy with Nina is collaborative. She believes people already hold many of the resources they need and helps them access those strengths.
Whether someone wants brief coaching around a single issue or longer work to address trauma and attachment wounds, she offers concrete tools and steady support.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Nina uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in ways that fit well online. Client-centered work focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people name their goals; online sessions allow that same supportive conversation to happen by video or phone. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at specific thoughts and behaviors, teaches coping skills, and practices new habits between sessions, which works well with shared worksheets or messaging between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the process and she treats it as a team effort. She will discuss goals, personal preferences, and what feels most useful, then tailor methods over time. This collaborative planning helps make short-term tools or longer-term emotion work feel relevant and manageable for each person.
Online formats offer flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and role-play relationship conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, practicing skills, or when a written reflection is easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while still using concrete strategies and emotional work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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