About Tina
Tina LaPorta is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) who helps adults handle stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and the daily challenges of parenting and family life. She talks with people about mood concerns, ADHD, substance use, grief, and problems with self-esteem. Her style is practical and direct, geared toward real change in everyday life.
She brings 15 years of clinical experience across community mental health, outpatient programs, and veterans services.
Background and approach
That work included counseling people with mood and trauma-related symptoms and providing care in intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization settings. She also spent time working with military service members and veterans in Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs settings.
Tina holds two master’s degrees in psychology, one focused on college teaching and the other in counseling with a specialization in marriage and family therapy. She is licensed as an LMFT in Arizona and Florida. Her background includes both teaching and long-term clinical practice in varied settings.
In session she leans toward cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. She also uses client-centered listening and motivational interviewing to support decisions about change. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical skills that fit day-to-day life.
People who connect with her tend to want straightforward guidance, tools to manage symptoms, and help improving communication in relationships. She works in English and is available to international clients through online formats.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's goals and values. The therapist offers empathic support and helps clients name what matters most, which is helpful for relationship, self-esteem, and life-direction issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches specific skills to change them. This approach helps with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and coping with life changes by building practical habits and thought checks.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to make changes and increases readiness to try new behaviors. It is often used alongside other approaches when someone is weighing changes like reducing substance use or improving routines.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, past experiences, and what has felt useful before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for fuller conversations and skill practice, phone calls can fit into a work break or low-bandwidth situations, and chat or messaging are useful for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Connecticut, New Jersey, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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