About Nina
Nina Lupo is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Washington with 25 years of practice experience. She offers straightforward, compassionate care for adults and young adults who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, relationships, parenting, grief, or shifts in life direction.
Background and approach
Her style is direct but warm, focused on helping people find practical steps forward. Her work blends client-centered listening with solution-focused tools.
Sessions often include clear strategies to manage anxiety, mood shifts, panic, and workplace strain. She also helps people facing trauma, relationship conflict, body image or sexuality questions, and concerns like burnout and compassion fatigue.
Nina trained in psychology at the University of Washington and completed graduate study in clinical psychology with an emphasis on marriage, family, and child therapy at Pepperdine University. Early in her career she contributed to marital therapy research, which informs her interest in relationship patterns and communication skills.
Over the years she has worked in nonprofits, independent practice, and educational settings as a counselor, case manager, advocate, consultant, supervisor, and therapist. That range shaped a practical approach that combines listening, skill building, and real-world problem solving.
Therapy with her is collaborative. She helps clients identify strengths inside themselves and builds tools to manage symptoms, repair connections, and pursue clearer goals.
Whether someone needs short-term guidance or longer support, she aims to meet each person where they are and help them move forward.
How Nina Uses Therapy Methods Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the client. The therapist creates space to hear a person's experience and follow their pace, which helps clarify goals and strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, panic, and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, concentrates on how people connect in relationships and helps identify and change patterns that cause anger, disconnection, or hurt.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about what feels most useful and adjust methods based on needs and goals. Sessions can mix approaches so the work matches what the client wants to achieve over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and relationship work, phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and chat or text lets people check in between sessions or get shorter guidance. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English