About Tina
Tina Phillips brings a practical, problem-solving approach to therapy. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 31 years of experience. Tina focuses on clear steps people can take to manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and relationship pain.
She speaks plainly and helps clients set realistic goals for change. Tina draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach skills for calming the body and staying present.
How Tina works
Solution-Focused Therapy helps her keep sessions goal-oriented and efficient. Her background includes work in psychiatric settings and with dual-diagnosis concerns. She also has experience related to addiction, grief, and coping with major life changes.
Tina has spent years working with seniors, children, families, and young adults with autism in different roles over her career. In sessions she aims to make ideas easy to test in everyday life. Conversations often begin with one or two clear steps to practice between meetings.
Tina helps people track how those steps are working and adjusts the plan as needed. She trained at the University of California Los Angeles for undergraduate studies and completed graduate training at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Her long career has given her a wide range of clinical experience and practical tools to draw on.
People meet Tina to address things like parenting stress, work burnout, eating and sleeping issues, trauma and abuse, and challenges with intimacy and self-esteem. She encourages clients to take small, steady actions toward the life they want.
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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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 31 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Tina’s Approaches Work Online
Tina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Mindfulness Therapy teaches breathing and attention skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can help stress, sleep, and anger management.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Tina works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s needs and goals. She will suggest options, try them out, and adjust the plan based on what is helpful and what fits a client’s daily life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support between sessions and can be easier to fit into a busy day. These options make it simpler to work on stress, addiction recovery, relationship concerns, and other issues from varied locations while keeping therapy focused and actionable.
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