About Tristine
Tristine Barry is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage anxiety, stress, addictions, and major life shifts. She focuses on building useful skills rather than jargon. Sessions are straightforward and aimed at small, concrete changes that add up over time.
She blends approaches like acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness to fit each person's needs. That means identifying patterns that get in the way, testing simple changes, and practicing new habits between sessions.
Background and approach
Tristine also draws on motivational interviewing to help with substance concerns and career motivation. Trauma, chronic pain, and grief are areas she often addresses by teaching body-based coping tools alongside talk therapy. Those somatic techniques include basic breathing, grounding, and gentle exercises to reduce overwhelming physical reactions.
This helps people feel steadier during hard moments and get back to daily life. Clients with ADHD, sleep and eating disturbances, anger, or relationship stress will find sessions that focus on practical strategies: routines, communication skills, and small behavior shifts. She pays attention to strengths and builds plans that match what a person can realistically try between visits.
Her style is calm and encouraging. Tristine aims to validate where someone is while offering clear steps forward. People who want a coach-like partner and skill-based work often choose this approach.
Online approaches that focus on skills and daily life
Tristine often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose values-driven actions. ACT emphasizes living in line with personal values while accepting difficult feelings rather than fighting them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is another frequent tool that looks at how thoughts influence behavior and teaches specific exercises to shift those patterns, useful for anxiety, sleep, and mood challenges.Choosing the right method is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, try approaches, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. That means sessions can mix ACT, CBT, and mindfulness in ways that match the person's needs and preferences rather than sticking to a single model.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, and text or live chat can be a shorter check-in or a way to process between meetings. These options make it easier to use therapy consistently and fit it into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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