About Tina
Dr. Tina Lott helps people who are struggling with addiction, mood challenges, anxiety, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She presents a calm and direct style that focuses on practical steps and clearer day-to-day coping.
She is Dr. Tina Lott, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with eleven years of experience. Her work often centers on co-occurring concerns such as substance use alongside depression or bipolar mood changes.
How Tina works
She also supports people facing trauma, grief, parenting stress, sleep or eating disruptions, and questions around identity and self-worth. She pays attention to how control issues, codependency, and abandonment worries affect behavior and relationships. Tina blends clinical knowledge with teaching experience from her role as a professor in a university counseling program.
That classroom work keeps her practice current and grounded in commonly used, evidence-based techniques. She aims to make sessions straightforward and useful, with clear goals and steps to try between meetings. Sessions may include framing problems in practical ways, building new routines for sleep or eating, managing intense emotions, and addressing addictive behaviors with structured skills.
She also works on strengthening self-love, repairing intimacy-related challenges, and navigating family stress from an individual perspective. Outside of clinical work she enjoys exercise, painting, travel, and reading, and values time with her family. Her background as an educator and clinician informs a collaborative approach that emphasizes skill-building and realistic plans for change.
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.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
Training and background
| Registers | LCPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Two common evidence-based approaches used in practices like hers include structured skill-building for addictions and mood management, and trauma-informed strategies to reduce the impact of past harm. Skill-building focuses on concrete habits, coping plans, and relapse prevention tools to manage substance use and mood swings. Trauma-informed strategies help people recognize triggers, develop safer responses, and regain a sense of control after abuse or unsafe experiences.Finding the right therapeutic approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on progress and preference. Clients and the therapist work together to pick methods that fit daily life and specific concerns such as sleep disruption, codependency, or intimacy issues.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or comfort with video is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or when someone needs shorter, ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to continue work between meetings with written messages and assigned exercises.
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