About Tina
Tina LaPorta is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) who supports adults facing anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and life transitions. She works with people dealing with stress, grief, addiction, trauma, and self-esteem concerns. Tina takes a practical, steady approach aimed at helping people feel more in control of daily life.
She has 15 years of clinical experience and has worked in a mix of settings including community mental health, outpatient programs, intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization.
Background and approach
Her background includes roles in federal service and veteran-centered care, which shaped her comfort with trauma, substance use, and adjustment issues. She is licensed as an LMFT in Arizona and Florida. Tina favors approaches that combine talking and action.
She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thinking patterns and change unhelpful behaviors. She also draws on client-centered and solution-focused ideas to keep sessions grounded and practical. In a typical session she listens first, then helps set clear, realistic goals.
Sessions can include skill practice, problem-solving, and steps to reduce distress between meetings. She helps people tackle attachment or communication problems, codependency, and family-of-origin concerns. Many clients seek her help for parenting stress, intimacy issues, bipolar mood management, ADHD-related challenges, and career pressure.
Tina aims to make therapy a collaborative process where people see gradual progress and learn tools they can use after therapy ends.
Approach and online options that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people name what matters most to them. This approach is useful for building trust, improving self-esteem, and clarifying goals.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. Sessions often include learning skills to shift unhelpful thinking and practicing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression. CBT is practical for stress, phobias, mood concerns, and many day-to-day problems.
Motivational interviewing helps people move through ambivalence and find reasons to change. It is short-term and goal oriented, and it pairs well with work on addiction, commitment issues, or lifestyle shifts.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative step. Tina will help figure out what fits based on your needs, goals, and preferences, and she will adjust methods if something isn’t working. The plan is to set clear goals and try practical steps together.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and skill practice, phone works when bandwidth is low, live chat lets you check in quickly, and text messaging supports brief updates or reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and continue work between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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
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