Corina Istanich
Supportive family-focused counselor
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Corina
Corina Istanich is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside relationship and addiction issues. She speaks English and Spanish and brings a calm, straightforward presence to sessions. Parents will find practical tools for communication, boundaries, and daily coping skills that can help calm stressful household patterns.
Corina prefers video sessions to better read nonverbal cues, though phone or live chat can be used when video is not possible.
Background and approach
Corina trained at Palm Beach Atlantic University for both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. That education shaped her personal values and informs how she shows up as a therapist. She has spent much of her career in inpatient addiction treatment and later in outpatient and in-home settings with community agencies.
Her work has included family therapy and supporting people across many life stages. Her main clinical orientation is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and she often incorporates techniques from other approaches as needed. Sessions mix direct conversation with hands-on skills practice, such as emotion regulation, grounding techniques, and communication exercises.
She emphasizes building a genuine therapeutic relationship as the foundation for change. In couples or family settings she pays attention to patterns that keep arguments repeating and helps people practice new ways of talking. For parents she focuses on boundaries, routines, and consistent responses that reduce daily friction.
Corina draws on her experience with substance use, grief, trauma, and stress when those issues overlap with family life. Her style is compassionate and straightforward. She aims to be both sensitive and direct so families can move toward healthier interactions and more predictable days.
How her approaches shape online family work
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and meeting each person where they are. In practice this means sessions focus on understanding family members' concerns and priorities before moving to solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect; it provides concrete strategies for changing unhelpful patterns and can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and parenting challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance, which can be useful when anger or intense reactions affect family relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist works collaboratively with parents and family members to identify goals and then recommends techniques that fit those goals and daily life. Over time the plan is adjusted based on what helps and what doesn’t, so clients have a say in how sessions proceed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy families. Corina uses video calls so she can see nonverbal cues and guide practice work in real time, and she also offers phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging when video is not possible. These options make it easier to fit sessions into school, work, and childcare schedules while keeping progress steady.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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