Tristine Barry
Compassionate counseling with practical coping skills
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tristine
Tristine Barry is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical strategies that help people manage anxiety, stress, addictions, mood concerns, and life transitions. Her tone is calm and encouraging, and she aims to meet people where they are without judgment.
Her approach centers on strengths and real coping tools. She teaches simple mind-body techniques, such as breath work, grounding, and mindfulness, to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to break unhelpful thinking patterns and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people connect to what matters most. Tristine draws on varied experience working with trauma, chronic pain, grief, and complex mood issues like depression and bipolar symptoms. She also addresses relationship and family concerns, caregiver stress, body image, and substance-related problems.
Her work includes attention to communication, boundaries, and patterns rooted in family of origin. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. She offers guidance, validation, and practical homework when it fits.
Technology and apps may be used to support learning between sessions. She practices in Florida and provides services in English. People interested in beginning work complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Evidence-Based Approaches Delivered Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify their values and take action toward them, even when strong emotions are present; it is useful for anxiety, mood challenges, and problems that involve avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior, teaching practical exercises to shift patterns that maintain anxiety, depression, or unhealthy habits. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's experience at the center, offering empathic listening and support that helps people feel heard and make their own changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. Sessions are collaborative, and the plan can be adjusted based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility for those with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person sessions, while phone, live chat, and text messaging provide shorter options for check-ins or between-session support. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and to keep practicing skills when needed.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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