About Tina
Tina Phillips is a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than three decades of practice in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
Tina uses straightforward, practical methods so conversations stay focused and useful. She speaks English and works with clients in person and online.
Her approach blends short-term problem solving with longer work on patterns that cause pain. She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness techniques help clients slow down and notice what’s happening in the body and mind. Solution-Focused Therapy keeps sessions goal-directed and action oriented.
Over 31 years Tina has worked in psychiatric settings and supported people with dual diagnosis and substance use issues. Her background includes helping people through divorce, child custody concerns, grief, and caregiver stress.
She also has experience supporting older adults, people in adoption and foster care situations, and those affected by chronic illness. In sessions she helps people set clear goals, try small changes, and track what helps.
Parents can get coaching around parenting, sleep, and eating challenges. People facing career shifts, burnout, or compassion fatigue will find a practical focus on coping skills and pacing.
Tina asks clients to assess what matters most and then work step by step. She encourages realistic expectations and regular check-ins so the plan can be adjusted.
Clients who want a collaborative, experienced therapist will find an accessible, down-to-earth approach.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Tina draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which often involves setting homework and tracking progress between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy is used to develop present-moment awareness and simple skills for managing stress and anxiety, such as short breathing or body-focused exercises. She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to keep conversations practical and focused on small, measurable steps toward a client’s goals.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Tina discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods based on what feels most useful. Together they will try techniques, review what works, and change course if needed so therapy stays relevant to current concerns.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different routines. Video lets people use visual cues and do exercises together, phone sessions can fit a short break at work or be easier when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between appointments. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity of care and fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English