About Tina
Tina LaPorta is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on practical steps people can take when anxiety, stress, or life changes become overwhelming. She speaks plain language and helps clients break problems into manageable pieces. Tina uses straightforward tools to improve daily coping and relationships.
She brings 15 years of clinical experience to sessions and has worked across outpatient, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization settings. Her background includes work with people facing substance use and severe, chronic mental health symptoms.
Background and approach
She also spent time in federal roles supporting active duty service members and veterans in community and Vet Center settings. Tina holds two master’s degrees in psychology, one emphasizing college teaching and the other in counseling with a specialization in marriage and family therapy.
She began teaching psychology before moving into direct clinical work, and she has practiced in several states, including Florida. In sessions she favors clear, goal-oriented work. Tina often uses cognitive behavioral tools to help clients notice unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes.
She also draws on client-centered and solution-focused ideas to keep sessions practical and centered on the client’s goals. People commonly bring concerns such as anxiety, depression, relationship and family tensions, substance use, grief, parenting stress, and work or life transitions. Tina also supports people dealing with attachment, codependency, communication problems, and issues like infidelity or blended family strain.
Practical therapy approaches adapted for online care
Tina often uses client-centered methods that focus on listening and building a therapy plan around each person’s goals. This approach helps people feel heard and keeps work focused on what matters to them. She frequently applies cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and tries small experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. CBT is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose techniques that fit goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. If something isn’t helping, they adjust the plan and try different strategies. Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist see nonverbal cues while keeping a face-to-face feel. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick support, homework check-ins, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue care during transitions or travel. Licensed professionals can use these formats to carry out focused, evidence-informed work on anxiety, relationships, and coping skills.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Connecticut, New Jersey, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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