About Tina
Tina Salerno is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 31 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life changes. She supports those facing depression, trauma, addiction, grief, and intimacy-related concerns. Tina offers a calm presence and straightforward guidance in session.
Tina uses familiar, practical methods to help people notice what’s not working and try new ways of coping. She listens first, then helps set small goals that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings. Her work often involves Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy to reflect and validate emotions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are used when people need strategies for managing intense feelings. Tina pays attention to relationship patterns and communication. She uses elements of the Gottman Method to address conflict and rebuild connection.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and wants to find the next step. Clients can expect a warm, steady approach that balances empathy with practical steps. Tina helps people build emotional resilience and clearer decision-making.
She works with a wide variety of concerns, including parenting stress, career pressures, body image, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Based in Florida, she provides services in English and Armenian and accepts international clients. Tina describes therapy as collaborative work: she and the person she sees set the pace and shape the plan together.
Approach and online options that fit your life
Tina commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in her online work. CBT focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and reflection so people feel heard while they sort out emotions and goals.She may also bring in Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when someone needs concrete tools for handling intense emotions and reducing impulsive behavior. These approaches are described and tried collaboratively so the person and therapist decide what fits best based on needs and goals.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is often used for fuller interaction, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text works well for brief check-ins or when typing helps you express yourself. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on progress and practical skills.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Armenian
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