About Tina
Tina Paxton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 12 years of experience working in California. She focuses on common struggles like stress and anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and depression. Tina views each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on during therapy.
She uses straightforward, practical work in sessions. Conversations aim to clarify what matters to the client and to practice small, usable skills between meetings.
Background and approach
Tina encourages steps that feel doable rather than overwhelming, and she notices progress even when it feels slow. Tina draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people change unhelpful thinking and manage difficult emotions. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients get clearer on values and to take meaningful action.
Sessions tend to mix talking, reflection, and simple in-the-moment exercises. People come to her for help with life transitions, caregiver stress, communication problems, addiction concerns, and issues that stem from family history or abandonment. She also works with those facing aging or first responder-related stress.
Tina pays attention to practical barriers and aims to find strategies that fit everyday life. Her style is warm and respectful, focused on collaboration. She partners with clients to set clear goals and tests small changes to see what works.
Tina supports people who want steady, realistic steps toward relief and renewed balance.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Tina commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. ACT helps people clarify what matters most to them and take steps toward those values even when difficult feelings remain.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Tina collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. She checks in and adjusts techniques so the work stays relevant and manageable for daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text messaging can be helpful for shorter check-ins, practicing skills, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep consistent contact and to try different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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