About Tina
Tina Bacigalupo is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan with 18 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, self-esteem, career decisions, and coping with life changes. Tina uses straightforward conversation to help people figure out what to try next.
She listens without judgement and helps people name the roadblocks that keep them stuck. Sessions often include clearer thinking about choices and small experiments to test new ways of handling problems.
Background and approach
Tina draws on approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative ideas to match what a person needs. Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She invites clients to talk through difficult feelings and to set goals that matter to them.
Tina aims to make steps feel manageable rather than overwhelming. People come for help with issues like abandonment, codependency, communication problems, control issues, and the fallout from divorce or infidelity. She also supports those dealing with aging and geriatric issues, blended family challenges, isolation, guilt and shame, and feelings of emptiness.
Tina uses practical tools and simple conversations to build on a client's strengths. She encourages curiosity about patterns, experiments to try new behaviors, and steady skill-building to handle stress and anxiety. The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can manage.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding what matters to the person. The therapist reflects concerns back and helps a person find their own solutions, which can be useful for stress, self-esteem, and relationship confusion.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It offers clear tools to test unhelpful thinking and develop new habits, which can help reduce anxiety and improve coping with life changes.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build calm. These skills often pair well with CBT techniques for managing worry and stress.
Finding the right approach happens together. Tina will work with each person to try methods that match their goals, preferences, and how they respond in sessions. That collaborative process helps shape what gets tried next and how quickly to adjust.
Online therapy makes sessions more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a busy day, live chat offers a shorter check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting it into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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