About Dina
Dina Mooney welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to turn. She emphasizes a straightforward, compassionate approach and helps clients take practical steps toward feeling better. Dina is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with seven years of experience guiding people through difficult moments.
She helps with a wide range of concerns including addictions, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, anger, low self-esteem, stress, anxiety, and depression.
How Dina works
Dina also supports people dealing with relationship and family issues, body image and eating concerns, and problems around communication and commitment. Her practice addresses both immediate crises and longer-term patterns that cause pain. Dina centers sessions on the client’s story and strengths.
She encourages people to name what matters most and to try small, manageable changes. Conversations are practical and focused on building skills for coping, decision-making, and healthier patterns. With experience working across many life transitions, Dina brings calm support during divorce, separation, blended family challenges, and recovery from domestic violence or substance use concerns.
She pays attention to attachment and abandonment themes that often underlie repeated difficulties. Dina works in English and offers several remote formats to fit different needs. She views therapy as a collaborative process and partners with clients to set goals and choose what feels most useful.
If someone is ready to begin, she guides them through the first steps to get matched and scheduled.
What Dina works with
The areas below are the ones Dina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Dina’s Approaches Work Online
Dina draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach she uses helps people learn concrete coping skills for anxiety, anger, and stress by practicing new behaviors and thought patterns in session and at home. Another approach emphasizes processing traumatic or painful experiences at a pace set by the client so painful memories feel less overwhelming and day-to-day functioning improves.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dina will talk with each person about their history, goals, and preferences, then recommend options and adjust methods as progress unfolds. The process is collaborative and goals are reviewed so treatments stay relevant to what the client needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is good when visual connection helps the conversation. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow checking in between sessions or for people who communicate better in writing. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy on a regular schedule.
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