About Tina
Tina LaPorta is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She offers straightforward support for parenting concerns, addiction, trauma and grief. Tina aims to make therapy understandable and practical for people juggling busy lives.
She brings 15 years of clinical work to each session. Her background includes roles in community mental health, outpatient programs, intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization settings.
How Tina works
That experience shaped her ability to work with people facing complex symptoms and co-occurring substance use concerns. Tina holds two master’s degrees in psychology - one in college teaching and one in counseling with a specialization in marriage and family therapy. She is licensed as an LMFT in Arizona and Florida.
Her training and work in multiple settings inform a flexible approach to care. In sessions she focuses on clear, goal-oriented steps. She uses Client-Centered methods to follow the person’s lead and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Motivational Interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used when people want practical change and clearer next steps. Tina works with adults on issues like attachment, blended family tensions, codependency, infidelity, and communication problems. She also supports people dealing with bipolar symptoms, ADHD, anger, career transitions, and feelings of emptiness.
Her style is collaborative and aimed at making daily life feel more manageable.
Tina lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Tina works with
The areas below are the ones Tina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s concerns first and focuses on listening, validation, and following the client’s pace. This approach helps people who need space to name their goals and feel heard before making changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses practical exercises and small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns over time.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It is useful when someone feels stuck or ambivalent about addiction, lifestyle changes, or new coping strategies.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust methods as needs evolve. Clients help shape which techniques are emphasized so work feels relevant and manageable.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work. Phone sessions and live chat offer lower-tech or quicker ways to check in. Text-based messaging supports brief reflections and ongoing prompts between sessions. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, quieter surroundings, shorter check-ins, or not being on camera.
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