About Tina
Tina Collins is an LCSW based in New Jersey who helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship struggles, grief, and changes in life. She draws on 21 years of experience to support people working through anger, family tensions, parenting challenges, sleep problems, and questions about self esteem or career direction. She encourages small steps and practical moves that fit daily life.
Her style is collaborative and direct. She treats the person in front of her as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, learning new ways to cope, and trying tools between meetings. Tina frames challenges as things that can change with steady effort. She offers coaching-style guidance when helpful, along with therapeutic conversation about feelings and patterns.
The work often includes developing coping skills for stress and anxiety, improving communication in relationships, and managing anger as it appears in everyday situations. Over two decades of practice have given her experience with trauma, compassion fatigue, depression, intimacy concerns, and ADHD-related struggles. She supports people sorting through career decisions and life transitions by helping them weigh options and practice new behaviors.
When someone reaches out, she helps them set simple, realistic steps. That might mean learning a breathing or sleep routine, rehearsing a difficult conversation, or creating a short plan for handling an overwhelming day. The aim is steady progress that fits real life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Tina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and practical change. One common approach she uses teaches coping skills for anxiety and stress such as breathing exercises, grounding, and stepwise behavior changes to reduce overwhelm. These tools help when worries or panic interfere with daily routines.She also employs problem-focused strategies that target relationship patterns and anger. This work often includes learning communication skills, practicing different responses, and setting realistic goals for interactions. For people facing life transitions or career questions she blends coaching elements with therapy to create action plans and small experiments.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Tina works collaboratively to pick methods that match each person’s goals and preferences. She will check in about what’s helping and adjust tactics as needed so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style prompts, or when writing feels easier than talking. These formats aim to make it simpler to keep steady progress while balancing work, family, and day-to-day demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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