Dr. Tina Smith
Compassionate, practical counseling for life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tina
Dr. Tina Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with six years of clinical experience. She centers sessions on clear, practical conversation and helps clients make choices that move them forward.
Her style blends straightforward cognitive-behavioral techniques with a focus on the therapeutic relationship. People often find her approach direct but supportive when they are facing stressful or confusing moments. Dr.
Smith uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful space where a person’s goals guide the work.
Background and approach
She integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thought patterns and build new habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy and elements of the Gottman Method inform her work around connection and communication. Mindfulness practices are offered to help manage stress and strong emotions.
Her clinical background includes work in mental health and correctional settings, and experience with addiction-related concerns and trauma. She has provided services to people with a wide range of mental health issues, including mood disorders, grief, and complex trauma. Dr.
Smith also has training related to sexual abuse treatment and has worked with clients who have intensive needs. She has practiced in both online and face-to-face formats and emphasizes a strengths-based, meet-people-where-they-are attitude. Sessions are conducted in English and she accepts clients from outside the United States.
Practical problem solving, skill-building, and gentle exploration of emotions are typical elements of her work. Dr. Smith holds LPC licensure in Colorado and Texas and combines evidence-based methods with steady support to help people navigate life changes and interpersonal stress.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and making the client’s goals central; online sessions let a licensed professional follow what matters most to the client and adapt each meeting to current needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills, which works well in remote sessions where homework and short practice tasks can be reviewed together. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotions and connection to help people manage relationship and intimacy-related struggles, and it can be adapted for video or phone formats so emotional shifts are noticed and supported.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as progress becomes clear. That shared decision-making helps ensure the work feels useful and aligned with personal preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, continue work across time zones, and use brief check-ins for skill practice between appointments. Many people find the variety of formats helpful for maintaining consistency and building real-life skills outside the therapy hour.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English
Next step
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