About Tina
Tina Salerno helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, addiction, grief, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports those dealing with anger, sleep or eating issues, attention challenges, and questions about self-esteem or career direction.
Background and approach
Tina practices with respect and a steady presence, and she offers services in English and Armenian from her Florida base. With 31 years of experience as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Tina keeps work straightforward and practical.
Sessions focus on what is causing distress now and on steps that can reduce it. She mixes listening with concrete tools so people leave with a plan they can try between meetings.
Tina uses several approaches to meet different needs. She uses Client-Centered methods to follow each person’s priorities and build trust.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break unhelpful thoughts and routines. Elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy teach emotional regulation and coping skills.
Her style is warm and direct. She talks through patterns, clarifies goals, and coaches people toward change.
Tina pays attention to life transitions, loss, identity questions, and the effects of past trauma on daily life. People who reach out can expect a focused, collaborative process.
Sessions may include practical homework, communication practice, or skill-building exercises. Tina aims to help each person gain more control over their choices and reactions.
Online and phone options are available alongside text-based check-ins. International clients may be supported, with scheduling arranged to match time zones and needs.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following each person's needs. In practice this means the therapist reflects what matters most, helps set priorities, and builds a working relationship that supports change. It is useful for people seeking validation, clarity, or help navigating life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions typically include practical exercises and homework to try between meetings, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for managing strong emotions and improving coping, especially when stress or impulsive reactions are a problem.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit the person's situation. Over time they will adjust the plan based on what is working and what needs more focus.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face without travel, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat supports quick check-ins or short coaching between sessions. These options help therapy fit around work, caregiving, or travel and make it easier to keep consistent progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Armenian