About Tina
Tina Bacigalupo is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Michigan with 18 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about next steps in life. Tina aims to provide a calm, accepting space where people can talk through stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and self-esteem concerns.
Her work centers on practical steps and clear goals. She uses approaches that help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a steady, respectful pace so clients can build skills and confidence over time. Tina also addresses life transitions and career questions. She helps people manage grief around loss, separation, or shifting family roles.
Topics such as loneliness, codependency, and communication problems are included in her focus. Her toolbox draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and narrative techniques. That mix lets her tailor sessions to what each person needs right now.
She explains ideas plainly and offers homework when it helps progress. Outside the session Tina emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes. She works with people who want clear steps to reduce anxiety, repair strained connections, or find direction in work and life.
The pace and priorities are set together, one session at a time.
How Tina’s Methods Work Online
Tina uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful space where the person’s goals lead the work. This approach focuses on listening closely, reflecting what’s said, and helping people feel understood as they decide what to change.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings. CBT is practical and helps with anxiety, stress, and patterns that keep someone stuck by teaching small experiments and new skills.
Mindfulness therapy is another tool she uses to help people notice thoughts and sensations without getting swept away by them. Mindfulness can reduce reactivity and improve calm when life feels overwhelming.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Tina will discuss options, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust strategies based on what helps most. The process is collaborative and paced to each individual.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper connection, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English