Dina Mooney
Calibrated support for difficult life changes
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Dina
Dina Mooney is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing addiction, trauma, grief, anger, anxiety, and other life changes. She speaks plain, direct language and focuses on practical steps that can reduce overwhelm. Dina emphasizes each person’s strengths and treats clients as experts in their own stories.
She offers steady support for people ready to take the first step toward feeling better. Dina draws on seven years of clinical experience working with a range of concerns, including stress, depression, body image, and eating-related issues.
Background and approach
She also addresses relationship and communication problems, attachment and abandonment worries, codependency, and challenges that follow divorce or separation. Her work includes support for people affected by domestic violence and substance use issues. In sessions she aims to translate therapeutic ideas into small, doable changes.
Conversations often focus on what has worked before, where problems start, and what can be shifted now. Dina encourages practice between sessions and checks progress together. She is licensed in California as an LMFT, CA LMFT 121259, and conducts sessions in English.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. The therapy process begins with a short matching questionnaire to help place clients with a therapist who fits their needs. Dina offers a supportive, straightforward approach for people coping with difficult emotions and life transitions.
She helps clients identify priorities, build on strengths, and move toward clearer next steps.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Many of the techniques used by Dina focus on practical change and skill building. One common approach helps people identify patterns in thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, and then practices specific new responses to those patterns; this can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Another common focus targets relational and attachment concerns by looking at how early relationships shape current reactions and then trying new ways of communicating and setting boundaries to improve connection and reduce conflict.Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will talk with each person about what feels most useful and adjust techniques based on goals and preferences. Clients and therapist decide which methods to try and check progress as they go.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. These options let people fit sessions around work, school, and family demands, and make it easier to keep continuity when life is busy or changing. The range of formats also allows for shorter check-ins or longer conversations depending on what a client needs at the moment.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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