About Tonine
Tonine Garberino is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 17 years of clinical experience in Florida and New Jersey. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and works with concerns like depression, bipolar mood issues, addiction, and self-esteem. Her practice also addresses relationship and intimacy struggles, career and family stresses, and life transitions.
She uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. Tonine creates a nonjudgmental space where people can talk through worries and start to try different ways of coping.
Background and approach
She emphasizes skills that can be used between sessions to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning. Her experience includes supporting people working through trauma and abuse, ADHD challenges, and eating or body-image issues. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, and communication problems.
She also works with people facing dissociation, personality-related patterns, and separation or divorce. Sessions are organized around the client's goals. Tonine helps identify small, practical steps toward change and checks in on progress.
She aims to empower people to make choices that fit their lives. People seeking help can expect clear talk about problems and direct practice of new skills. She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging as session formats to suit different schedules and needs.
CBT-informed care online for anxiety and life stress
Tonine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot thinking patterns that increase anxiety and stress. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and trying new behaviors so daily life feels more manageable. This approach often helps with anxiety, depression, and problems like low self-esteem or changes in routine.She applies practical exercises and homework between sessions so skills get practiced in real situations. Choosing the right approach is part of the work together - the therapist and client review goals and preferences and adjust methods as needed. That collaboration helps make sure the plan fits the person's life and concerns.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual rapport, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates or try exercises between appointments. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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