Tonine Garberino
Practical CBT for everyday family stresses
- Credentials
- LMHC, LPC
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tonine
Tonine Garberino is a licensed mental health counselor who uses practical, skill-based work to address everyday problems. She blends straightforward talk with exercises clients can use between sessions. The goal is to reduce distress and build routines that make daily life easier.
Tonine holds LMHC and LPC credentials and has 17 years of professional experience in Florida and New Jersey. She has supported people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, and issues with addiction.
Background and approach
She also focuses on relationship and intimacy concerns and on navigating major life changes. Her approach centers on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more balanced thinking. Sessions include clear strategies for coping, concrete homework, and practical problem solving.
This makes therapy useful for problems like worry, low mood, and difficulties managing impulses. She also attends to concerns related to body image, eating, self-esteem, and attention differences such as ADHD. Additional areas of attention include adoption and foster care matters, blended family dynamics, and fatherhood issues.
Tonine aims to address the real tasks families and individuals face, not just symptoms. People can expect a nonjudgmental room where feelings and thoughts are named and discussed. Her style is direct but warm, focusing on what can change now.
She helps clients take small steps toward clearer goals and better daily functioning.
Practical CBT techniques and flexible online care
Tonine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT breaks problems into manageable pieces and teaches clear tools for worry, low mood, and coping with urges or addictive behaviors. These tools can be practiced during the week to make steady progress.The choice of approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and daily life, then suggest strategies that fit those needs. Together they test which techniques feel most useful and adjust the plan over time to match preferences and progress.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible support around busy schedules. These formats make it easier to meet from home, during breaks, or while managing family responsibilities. Remote sessions allow for regular check-ins and practical coaching between in-person commitments, helping clients keep momentum toward their goals.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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