About Tonine
Tonine Garberino is a licensed mental health counselor who uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage stress and anxiety. She brings 17 years of experience working with adults who struggle with mood, addictive behavior, self-esteem, and relationship concerns. Her approach aims to make therapy feel safe and approachable for someone taking a first step toward change.
She focuses on helping people build skills to cope with everyday pressure and big life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions often include looking at how thoughts influence feelings and behaviors, and practicing small changes that make a daily difference. Tonine emphasizes clear, doable strategies rather than technical jargon. Clients with issues like depression, bipolar mood swings, ADHD, or eating and intimacy-related concerns can expect direct, skill-focused work.
She also supports people facing trauma, grief, or the stress of adoption and blended family situations. Communication problems, codependency, and commitment worries are addressed with practical steps and realistic goals. Tonine holds licenses as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor in Florida and New Jersey.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to spot unhelpful patterns and try new responses. Her style is collaborative: she listens, offers options, and helps people choose what fits their life. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging.
Prospective clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through concerns and learn tools for steady progress.
Using CBT and online sessions to build better habits
Tonine frequently draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on approach that looks at how thoughts shape emotions and actions. CBT helps people break cycles of worry, compulsive behaviors, and low mood by teaching concrete exercises and small behavior changes that can be practiced between sessions.Her work focuses on collaborative planning. She and the client decide together which techniques to try, based on the person’s goals, daily life, and what feels doable. That joint process makes it easier to test new habits and adjust plans as needed.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this kind of skill-based work. Video calls let the therapist observe body language and guide exercises in real time. Phone sessions work well when someone needs less bandwidth or prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or sending homework between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep practicing skills where they matter most.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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