About Tina
Tina Salerno is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Florida with 31 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, anger, grief, and intimacy concerns. She also assists with career strain, sleep and eating problems, and self-esteem issues.
Tina uses a direct but compassionate style. Sessions are focused on practical steps people can try between meetings. She listens closely, helps name patterns that cause problems, and works with each person to set clear goals.
How Tina works
Progress is tracked in simple ways so people can see change. Her work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person's perspective. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical behavior strategies are used when emotion regulation and coping skills are needed, and motivational interviewing helps with substance use and change readiness. Tina has addressed a wide range of concerns across many life stages, including abandonment, attachment challenges, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image.
She also supports people dealing with relationship communication, blended family dynamics, and commitment worries. Sessions are offered in English and Armenian, and she accepts international clients. People can expect straightforward guidance, realistic homework, and an emphasis on building skills that fit daily life.
The tone in sessions is warm, focused, and aimed at helping people move forward.
Tina lists 8 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 31 |
| Languages | English, Armenian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own perspective and goals. The therapist listens deeply and helps people make changes that feel right for them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to shift them. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, emphasizes building emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage strong feelings.Finding the best approach is part of therapy. The therapist works collaboratively to match techniques to the person's needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying methods, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have a full session face to face when schedules or travel make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions are useful for shorter check-ins or when lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing coaching, brief updates, and quick skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches described above.
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