About Tina
Tina Okenfuss is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eight years of clinical experience supporting people through anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and self-esteem concerns. She meets each person where they are and focuses on practical steps that make daily life more manageable. Tina emphasizes clear communication and a straightforward style in sessions.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients build coping skills and resilience. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful patterns, developing strategies for stress and anxiety, and strengthening a sense of self-worth.
Background and approach
Tina frames work as a collaboration and helps clients set achievable short-term goals. People often come to her when facing major life transitions such as grief, divorce, or shifts in identity. She also helps with ongoing challenges like chronic illness, caregiver stress, and body image concerns.
Tina listens for the practical barriers that get in the way of progress and addresses those directly. Her approach is grounded in warmth and nonjudgmental listening. She prioritizes clear steps you can try between sessions and checks in on what works.
The tone in sessions is candid and supportive rather than overly clinical. Tina practices in Arkansas and offers appointments by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. She conducts sessions in English and guides people through the first steps to get started when they are ready.
How evidence-based methods translate to online care
Many interventions Tina uses are evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and building coping strategies. For example, cognitive-focused work helps people spot negative thinking patterns and practice alternative ways of framing stressful situations to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Another common approach involves skills training to manage distress - learning short breathing or grounding exercises, planning step-by-step behavior changes, and practicing new responses to everyday triggers.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Tina works with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She begins by listening closely, then suggests techniques to try and adjusts the plan based on what helps most over time.
Online therapy with Tina is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues help the work, phone can be simpler on low bandwidth, live chat fits quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain momentum on the work you want to do.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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