About Dina
Dina Mooney is a California licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people facing anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and relationship strain. She writes short, direct guidance and encourages clients to use their own strengths during hard moments. Dina aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable and worth the effort for people who are unsure where to start.
She centers sessions on the client's experience and treats the person, not just a diagnosis.
Background and approach
Dina draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma, anger, and self-esteem concerns. She helps people talk through difficult events, identify unhelpful patterns, and try small behavior changes between sessions. Many clients come with complicated family-of-origin issues, blended family stress, or problems around communication and commitment.
Dina also supports those coping with body image, eating and food-related concerns, and substance use struggles. She listens for how past attachments and abandonment fears show up in present relationships. Her seven years of practice have mostly been in California settings where people bring painful life changes and need practical strategies.
Dina uses clear goals and collaborative planning to keep work focused and measurable. She will help set short-term steps so progress is visible. Dina offers sessions that mix talk therapy with skill-building.
She encourages people to try approaches that fit their daily life and values. The aim is steady forward movement, even when change feels slow.
How Dina Uses Evidence-Based Techniques Online
Dina draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people make concrete changes. One common approach she uses helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can ease anxiety and depressive symptoms by teaching practical coping skills. Another approach centers on processing trauma and its effects on current relationships, helping people notice how past experiences shape reactions and try different responses.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. Dina works with each person to figure out which methods match their needs, goals, and day-to-day life. She encourages clients to try different strategies and adjusts the plan based on what is working for them.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and preferences. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports shorter, ongoing reflections between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving days while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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