About Nina
Nina Lupo is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and life transitions. She works with adults and young adults to address parenting concerns, trauma, grief, self-esteem, and questions about sexuality and identity. Nina aims to be direct and caring while helping clients find practical steps forward.
Nina draws on a mix of person-centered and solution-focused ways of working.
How Nina works
She listens for what matters to each person and then partners with them to set clear goals. Sessions often include practical tools to manage emotions, improve communication, and rebuild a sense of control after difficult events.
Her background includes undergraduate study in psychology at the University of Washington and graduate work in clinical psychology with an emphasis on marriage, family, and child therapy at Pepperdine University. Early in her training she assisted with marital therapy research, which informs her interest in relationship work. Over the years Nina has worked in nonprofit agencies, independent practice, and educational settings.
Roles have included counselor, case manager, advocate, consultant, and supervisor. That variety gives her experience with everyday stresses as well as deeper trauma and family-of-origin issues. In therapy she aims to balance compassion with straightforward guidance.
She helps people uncover strengths they already have and teaches tools to handle panic, low mood, workplace strain, and compassion fatigue. Nina invites collaboration so clients can decide whether they want short-term coaching or longer-term work to heal from past hurts.
Nina lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Nina works with
The areas below are the ones Nina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
How Nina’s Approaches Translate to Online Sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and meeting each person where they are. Online sessions using this approach often involve reflective listening, empathy, and helping clients set their own goals, which can help with anxiety, self-esteem, and life transitions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to shift them. In video or phone sessions Nina can introduce coping techniques, thought records, and behavioral experiments to reduce panic, low mood, and workplace stress.
Emotionally-focused work helps people understand and shift patterns in close relationships. That approach can be used online to practice new ways of communicating, process attachment issues, and address intimacy-related concerns with specific exercises and role-play.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Nina will help identify which methods match a person's needs and goals and will adapt techniques as therapy progresses. Clients and therapist decide together whether short-term coaching or longer-term therapy is the better fit.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people work face-to-face while saving travel time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, coaching-style exchanges, or ongoing reflection between sessions.
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