About Tonine
Tonine Garberino uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people facing stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and relationship struggles. She is a licensed mental health counselor and a licensed professional counselor with 17 years of experience. Tonine works with people who are dealing with mood concerns, life transitions, and challenges to self-esteem.
She offers a calm, direct approach that focuses on practical steps and clear goals. Clients can expect sessions where thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are talked through together.
How Tonine works
Tonine encourages straightforward conversation and helps people identify patterns that get in the way. She supports people working through depression, bipolar mood challenges, and coping with big life changes. Practical tools and homework are used to build new habits and reduce distress.
She also helps people handling intimacy and eating concerns, ADHD, trauma and abuse, and issues connected to adoption or foster care. Communication problems, codependency, control issues, and difficulties tied to separation or divorce are part of her work. Tonine brings experience addressing a broad range of personality and mood concerns including dissociation, avoidant and dependent personality traits, and disruptive mood dysregulation.
In sessions she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts can be shared. The goal is to support and empower people as they take practical steps toward change. She tailors sessions to each person’s needs and focuses on measurable progress.
Tonine is licensed in Florida and New Jersey. She provides care in English and has nearly two decades of clinical experience guiding people through recovery and life transitions.
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What Tonine works with
The areas below are the ones Tonine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
CBT approaches and online access to care
Tonine primarily uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, stress, addictive behaviors, and many everyday problems by breaking big issues into manageable steps.She emphasizes practical skills during online sessions, such as tracking thoughts, practicing coping strategies, and setting concrete goals between meetings. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process - the therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust plans until a good fit is found.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection and homework. These options make therapy more flexible for people with varied schedules and access needs.
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