About Tina
Tina Phillips is a licensed marriage and family therapist with three decades of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for stress and anxiety and helps people handle life changes that feel overwhelming. Tina uses clear, goal‑oriented methods to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try new ways of coping.
She draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, and solution-focused strategies to help reduce distress and build daily routines that feel manageable.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in psychiatric settings and with people facing addiction and dual diagnosis. She has also spent substantial time supporting older adults, assisting children and their parents, and working with young adults on the autism spectrum. Tina listens for what matters most to each person and then builds simple, achievable steps.
Sessions often focus on skills you can use right away - breathing and grounding tools, thought tracking, and short experiments to test new behaviors. Across 31 years of practice Tina has helped people through grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, sleep and eating concerns, and career transitions. She welcomes conversations about practical coaching for coping, self‑esteem, and rebuilding after trauma.
If you want straightforward strategies and steady support, she can help clarify next steps.
How Tina’s approaches translate to online therapy
CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT sessions usually include tracking thoughts, setting small goals, and practicing new skills between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present‑moment awareness. These short practices can be guided in a video call or reinforced through text reminders and recordings between sessions.
Solution‑Focused Therapy concentrates on clear, achievable goals and immediate steps. It is well suited to online work because sessions often focus on concrete actions and measurable progress that clients can try between meetings.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Tina will talk with each person about their goals, daily routines, and preferences, then recommend techniques that fit their life. She adapts methods as progress is made so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions are convenient when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for quick check‑ins or shorter coaching moments. These options make it easier to get consistent support around work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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