Tina Phillips
Calm, practical therapy for families
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tina
Tina Phillips is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who uses proven, practical methods to help families and parents manage stress and tough transitions. She draws on three decades of clinical work to support people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and parenting challenges. Tina writes plainly and meets clients where they are to find clear next steps.
She studied Communication Studies at UCLA and completed graduate training at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
Background and approach
Tina has been licensed in California as an LMFT for over 30 years, and that experience informs a steady, problem-solving approach. She emphasizes straightforward tools that can be used at home and in daily life. Her background includes work in psychiatric settings and care with clients who had dual diagnoses.
Tina has spent repeated periods focusing on seniors, on children and families, and on young adults with autism. She also has extensive experience supporting people coping with addiction and relapse. These varied settings gave her many practical strategies for common family stresses.
In sessions she tends to be direct and collaborative. She helps parents break big problems into small steps, learn simple coping skills for anxiety and anger, and put supports in place after loss or separation. She also works on self-esteem and relationship patterns that affect family life.
Tina values realistic plans over perfect solutions. She aims to help families find workable routines, safer communication, and manageable goals. Reaching out for help is a meaningful step, and she treats that step with respect and focus.
Online approaches that fit family life
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and many parenting stressors because it teaches concrete skills to try between sessions.Mindfulness Therapy helps clients pay attention to the present moment without judgment. This approach can ease reactivity, reduce stress, and support calmer responses during tense family interactions.
Solution-Focused Therapy centers on what is working now and builds small, practical changes toward clear goals. It works well for parents and families who need quick, doable steps to improve routines and communication.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person or family to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process helps make sessions feel relevant and achievable.
Online therapy lets families access support without rearranging an entire day. Video calls and phone sessions allow real-time conversation, while live chat and text-based messaging give flexibility for shorter check-ins and follow-up between appointments. These options can make it easier to keep momentum and use new skills in daily life.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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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
Next step
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