About Katina
Katina (Tina) Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Indiana with 26 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, and phobias. Tina aims to make each session straightforward and easy to understand so people can take small steps forward.
Tina listens closely and centers conversations on the person in front of her. She uses practical tools and straightforward talk to help clients manage anger, addictive behavior, and stress.
Background and approach
Sessions often include checking current problems, setting clear goals, and trying skills that can be used between meetings. Her approach blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and emotionally-focused methods. She also draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people stay engaged and find new ways to cope.
These approaches guide gentle challenge, changes in thinking, and deeper exploration of emotions. Tina has supported people through complicated family dynamics, parenting strain, eating and food-related issues, and major life changes like separation or illness. She also helps people cope with abandonment, codependency, and communication problems that keep relationships stuck.
People who prefer flexible formats can connect by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She works with international clients and conducts sessions in English. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on respectful listening and collaborating with the person to find goals that matter. It helps when someone needs a calm space to talk through feelings and decide next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and uses practical exercises to change patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, or phobias. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name strong emotions and then use that awareness to shift interaction patterns and heal relational wounds.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each client about their goals and preferences, try approaches that fit, and adjust as needed. Together they decide which techniques feel most helpful and practical for the issues at hand.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let therapists and clients work visually through body language and exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging enable quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain momentum over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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