Katina (Tina) Smith
Helping parents find emotional balance and clarity
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Katina
Katina (Tina) Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 26 years of clinical experience. She offers practical, down-to-earth support for parents and individuals dealing with relationship strain, parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and trauma. Tina uses plain language during sessions and focuses on helping people find more emotional balance and clearer direction in daily life.
Her style is warm and straightforward. She listens first and then helps clients set small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Tina draws on proven techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and improve communication. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and build skills that work at home. In practice she blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral tools and emotion-focused work.
That mix lets clients talk through feelings, test new habits, and strengthen important relationships. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are added when people want help with attention, coping, or making lasting changes. Tina has experience across many concerns including parenting, grief, addictions, eating and food-related issues, bipolar mood concerns, and coping with major life changes.
She has worked with people facing trauma, domestic violence, divorce and separation, blended family issues, and communication or commitment problems. She sees clients based in Indiana and also offers sessions to international clients. Sessions are offered in English and provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and making the client feel heard. It helps people explore their concerns at their own pace and clarify what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical strategies to shift them; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps identify and change the emotional responses that strain close relationships and improves communication and connection.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tina will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. Sessions often blend techniques so clients get both emotional understanding and useful skills to try between meetings.
Online sessions offer flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That range makes it easier to fit therapy around parenting schedules, work, and other responsibilities. These options also let people continue with care when travel or location would otherwise be a barrier, while keeping the focus on progress and usable strategies.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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