About Alina
Alina Ghitea is a licensed marriage and family therapist who centers therapy on relationships and how they shape daily life. She brings six years of clinical experience and a calm, warm presence to sessions.
Background and approach
Alina focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports people facing grief, trauma, parenting strain, career changes, and mood challenges.
Alina uses practical, evidence-informed methods in sessions. She draws on attachment work to look at safety and connection in close relationships.
She also practices client-centered techniques that prioritize each person’s goals and pace. Cognitive tools are used to spot unhelpful thinking and build coping skills.
In the therapy room she aims to be reflective and direct, helping people name patterns and try new ways of relating. Sessions often include problem-solving, emotion work, and skill building for managing panic, anger, or low mood.
She also addresses family of origin issues, communication problems, and multicultural or immigration-related concerns. Alina is comfortable talking about adoption and foster care topics, codependency, fatherhood issues, and challenges tied to ADHD or bipolar mood disorders.
She helps people who feel isolated or overwhelmed refocus on values, purpose, and practical next steps. Sessions are offered in English and are based in Florida.
Her approach is collaborative: she works with each person to choose goals and techniques that fit their life. Alina uses a mix of short-term strategies and deeper emotion-focused work so people can cope better now and build stronger connections over time.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Alina uses attachment-based work to explore safety and connection in relationships, helping people notice how past bonds shape current emotions and reactions. This approach can help with intimacy issues, family of origin concerns, and rebuilding trust. Client-centered therapy is also central; it focuses on listening, reflecting, and following the person's pace so goals come from the client's priorities rather than a preset agenda. This approach supports self-esteem, grief work, and coming to clearer decisions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alina will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to emphasize based on their goals, comfort level, and the issues they bring. She often combines short-term cognitive tools with deeper emotion-focused sessions so people get immediate coping skills alongside long-term change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for full conversations and emotion work. Phone sessions can be quieter and use less bandwidth. Live chat or messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English