About Tashima
Tashima Kinney uses a practical, person-centered approach to help people move through stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. She brings a calm, steady style and focuses on what someone wants to change now. Tashima is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and works with a wide range of concerns including addiction, grief, parenting strain, and issues tied to identity and intimacy.
She tailors sessions to each person. Conversations are straightforward and goal-focused, with attention to emotions and daily challenges.
Background and approach
Tashima draws on client-centered work and trauma-focused techniques to make space for difficult memories while also building practical coping skills. Mindfulness and solution-focused methods are woven into sessions when useful. That means developing short exercises to reduce overwhelm, and setting small, achievable steps to reach a client’s goals.
She helps people with communication problems, codependency, infidelity, and blended family stress by focusing on what can change now. Tashima has been working in counseling roles for 13 years and holds LPC credentialing in Missouri and New Jersey. Her background includes work in settings that served people with complex family and behavioral concerns.
She combines that experience with a flexible, problem-solving style. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Tashima supports people ready to work on anger, ADHD challenges, process addictions, fatherhood issues, and multicultural concerns.
Her aim is to help clients make steady, concrete progress toward their goals.
Approaches to Online Healing and Practical Change
Tashima often draws from client-centered therapy, which focuses on the person’s own goals and pace. Sessions prioritize listening, reflecting what matters to the client, and helping them decide the next steps toward change.She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach simple practices that reduce stress and improve attention. These are short exercises a person can use during a hard moment or to slow down when thinking feels overwhelming.
Solution-focused therapy appears in sessions as small, concrete steps. The work centers on identifying one or two achievable changes and tracking progress over time, which helps when people feel stuck or unsure where to begin.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Tashima will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences, and then shape the mix of techniques to fit. This is a collaborative process that can shift as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick coping tips, or when someone prefers writing over talking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and changing life demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, New Jersey
- Languages
- English