About Tina
Tina LaPorta is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. She speaks plainly and works with adults facing life changes, addiction, trauma, parenting strain, and issues with self-esteem or intimacy.
Background and approach
Tina has 15 years of clinical experience and brings a steady, practical approach to sessions. She uses clear, goal-focused methods to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes.
Sessions often focus on solving immediate problems while also looking at longer patterns that affect relationships and mood. Tina draws on client-centered listening to understand each person’s priorities before suggesting next steps.
Her background includes community mental health, intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs, and work with the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs. That range of settings shaped her ability to support people during big transitions and crises as well as ongoing struggles.
Tina holds two master’s degrees in psychology and counseling, with a focus on marriage and family therapy, and she is licensed as a marriage and family therapist in Arizona and Florida. She blends practical tools with reflective work to help clients meet goals for daily functioning and relationships.
In sessions she often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies. Treatment is collaborative: she helps people set clear goals, track progress, and adjust the plan when needed.
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life
Client-centered work begins by listening to what matters most to the client and shaping sessions around those priorities. This approach helps people feel heard and ensures therapy targets the issues they want to change, such as relationship patterns or parenting stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps clients identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. It is practical and often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by building specific skills and homework the client can try between sessions.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change, especially around addictions or ambivalence. It is collaborative and focuses on strengths and personal values to boost motivation for lasting steps forward.
Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose or combine approaches based on goals, preferences, and what proves helpful in early sessions. The plan is adjusted as progress is tracked and needs shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to consistent care. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and try tools in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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