About Tinia
Tinia Holleman-Soto helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about next steps. She focuses on stress, anxiety, mood changes, relationship and family strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, and other life transitions.
Background and approach
Tinia is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT practicing in California with 15 years of experience. Tinia begins by listening and making space for a person’s story without judgment.
She uses straightforward conversation to help clients notice how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions are collaborative and aimed at small, practical changes that can make daily life feel more manageable.
Her background includes early work as a behaviorist supporting very young children with developmental delays and coordinating care with speech and occupational therapists. Later she worked in school and community settings alongside psychiatrists, social workers, and case managers to support children, teens, and families facing depression, anxiety, trauma, and ADHD.
Tinia combines client-centered care with cognitive-behavioral and existential ideas. That means she meets people where they are, helps them challenge unhelpful thought patterns, and asks questions about meaning and purpose when those topics matter.
She also uses attachment-focused and emotion-oriented methods when relationships and closeness are central concerns. People who choose Tinia can expect a calm, direct style and a team approach.
She helps clients set concrete goals, practice new skills between sessions, and reflect on values so change fits real life.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and reactions; it helps when trust, closeness, or repeated relationship patterns are causing pain. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental listening stance and supports people as they find their own solutions and strengths. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust or blend methods so sessions match the client's needs. This collaborative decision-making helps ensure therapy stays relevant and usable between meetings.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different days and schedules. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports short updates or reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy routines while keeping the focus on progress and practical tasks.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English