About Tina
Tina Jerolds is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 22 years of experience based in Illinois. She has spent more than two decades helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Tina draws on a range of practical methods to support clients through difficult moments.
Her background includes a graduate degree in social work from Southern Illinois University with a concentration in mental health. She has worked across settings that include child welfare and community mental health, bringing broad experience with trauma, abuse, and mood concerns.
Background and approach
This work has informed a down-to-earth approach to therapy. In sessions she focuses on what is useful and doable. She uses client-centered conversation to understand each person’s story.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps break down unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. Tina also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, addiction issues, anger, and career-related stress. She pays attention to guilt and shame, social anxiety, sexual assault and abuse, and women’s issues when they arise in sessions.
Her style is respectful and compassionate while staying focused on practical steps. Outside of work she enjoys hiking, cycling, walking her golden named Ruby, writing, and spending time with family. She tailors the work to each person’s needs and helps clients move toward clearer thinking and better day-to-day coping.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Tina uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person’s experience and priorities. This approach means sessions begin with open listening and follow the client’s concerns, which can help with anxiety, stress, and relationship issues. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice different behaviors. CBT is often useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with life changes because it breaks problems into manageable steps. Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. Tina will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try approaches that fit their life. That collaborative planning helps guide whether more conversation-based work or specific CBT exercises are used. Online sessions offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when that matters. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is an issue or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share thoughts between sessions and fit support into busy days. These formats make it easier to maintain regular contact and flexibility while working toward clearer thinking and better coping skills.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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