About Tina
Dr. Tina Caro brings a practical, person-focused approach to therapy. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, based in Texas with 23 years in the field.
She aims to help people make real changes and reach the goals they set for themselves. She focuses on relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, depression, anxiety, and compassion fatigue. She also works with grief, intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar concerns, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Additional areas include adoption and foster care, blended family issues, communication problems, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and first responder or veteran-related issues. Her style combines client-centered listening with evidence-informed tools. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Solution-focused techniques help people set clear, manageable goals and notice progress quickly. Tina takes a straightforward, collaborative stance in sessions. She listens first, then offers concrete strategies and homework when that fits the person's goals.
Sessions aim to be calm, practical, and focused on what the person needs right now. Over two decades of work in counseling and education give her a broad view of common life stresses. People who want a counselor who balances warmth with clear guidance may find her approach useful.
She works in English and practices in Texas as an LPC.
How her methods translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects concerns, and helps clarify what matters most. This approach helps with relationship struggles, life transitions, and emotional overwhelm.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses clear steps and practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits. CBT is useful for depression, anxiety, and coping with stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that fit the person's needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress and feedback guide the plan.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice-only check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, do shorter updates, or communicate when a written format feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while using the therapist's chosen methods.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English