About Trina
Trina Jones Artis is a licensed clinical social worker in Hawaii. She brings three years of direct practice to sessions and focuses on short-term, goal-oriented work that centers the client's voice. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and follow the client's priorities.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their reasons to change. Solution-Focused Therapy points to practical steps that can be tried between sessions. Trina works with stress and anxiety, grief and loss, and issues that affect self-esteem and confidence.
How Trina works
She also addresses LGBT concerns, pregnancy and childbirth challenges, and postpartum depression. Additional focus areas include young adult issues, multicultural concerns, and veteran and armed forces matters. Her style is straightforward and supportive.
She encourages clients to notice small wins and to build on the strengths they already have. Sessions aim to be brief, practical, and focused on clear goals. Clients can expect collaborative conversations that move toward doable changes.
Trina helps people set realistic steps and check progress over time. She reminds clients that taking a first step is an act of courage, and she offers steady support along the way.
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What Trina works with
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Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Hawaii |
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Online support options
How client-centered and solution-focused work translates online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the client's lead. Online sessions let the therapist hear what matters most to the client and shape goals around those priorities. Motivational Interviewing focuses on helping someone find their own reasons to change, and it works well in short, focused conversations that build commitment.Solution-Focused Therapy looks for practical, small steps that make a difference quickly. In online work this can mean setting one or two doable experiments to try between sessions and then reviewing what happened. Together the therapist and client decide whether to keep a step, tweak it, or try something new, so therapy stays flexible and goal-directed.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist discusses options and adapts methods based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative effort where the client's goals guide which tools are used.
Online sessions offer practical benefits like time flexibility and easier scheduling. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a work break or avoid camera use, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to keep momentum between appointments and to match the format to the client's day-to-day life.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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