About Tina
Tina Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and those wanting to build confidence and motivation. Her work also addresses depression and related struggles.
Tina uses a calm, straightforward style and offers steady support as people take steps toward change. People meet Tina to talk through worry, low mood, self-doubt, and parenting or family tensions.
Background and approach
She listens without judgment and helps clients name what matters most to them. Sessions are practical and aimed at small, manageable changes that add up over time. Tina often uses client-centered methods, which means the conversation follows the client's priorities and pace.
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy, emphasizing skills for managing emotions and improving relationships. These approaches guide how she structures sessions and homework between meetings. Sessions may include skill-building exercises, clear goal-setting, and problem-solving for daily challenges.
Tina works with people on family-of-origin issues, attachment concerns, adoption and foster care topics, communication problems, caregiver stress, and the emotional effects of divorce or separation. Her plain-speaking approach helps people practice new responses to old patterns. Tina encourages realistic steps toward greater calm and clearer thinking.
She supports people while they try things differently and track what helps.
How Tina Uses Therapies Online
Tina commonly uses client-centered therapy, which centers conversations on the client's priorities and pace. This approach helps people feel heard while deciding practical next steps. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy or DBT to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills useful for anxiety and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tina collaborates with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals and daily life. She will adjust tools and exercises over time based on what is helpful and what feels workable for the client.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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