About Tina
Tina Phillips is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 31 years of experience. She uses clear, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, parenting strain, and ADHD-related challenges. Tina speaks plainly and focuses on small, doable steps people can take between sessions.
She trained at Pepperdine University after studying Communication Studies at UCLA. Over three decades she has worked in psychiatric settings and with clients facing dual diagnoses.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term work with seniors, children and families, and young adults on the autism spectrum. Tina draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts that get in the way and test more helpful ideas. She integrates Mindfulness Therapy to teach attention and calm when worry or overwhelm show up.
She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to build on strengths and set short-term, practical goals. In sessions she aims for a straightforward, compassionate style. Conversations focus on what’s happening now, what patterns keep coming back, and what specific changes would feel useful.
She emphasizes homework that fits daily life so change is steady and realistic. People turn to her for help with relationships, trauma and abuse recovery, eating or sleeping struggles, career stress, bipolar mood concerns, and coping with major life change. Tina also supports those coping with caregiving stress, addiction recovery, and complex family history issues.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people spot the thoughts and habits that fuel anxiety or low mood and try out different ways of thinking and behaving. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many everyday stressors.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus. It can help with stress, emotional overwhelm, and improving sleep and concentration.
Tina approaches therapy collaboratively and will help clients choose what fits best. She works together with each person to set goals and adjust methods based on their needs, preferences, and what actually helps in daily life.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can be a shorter check-in or fit into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep appointments around work, caregiving, or travel and to try different formats to see what feels most effective.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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