About Tina
Dr. Tina Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor who blends practical, evidence-based methods with a warm, client-centered style. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
She also supports those facing relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, addiction, grief, and identity-related questions. Dr. Smith uses straightforward tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
She pairs that with client-centered work that keeps the conversation focused on each person's goals and values.
Background and approach
She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy and elements of the Gottman Method when relationship patterns are causing pain. Her background includes six years working in a range of settings, including clinical and correctional environments, and she has experience with sexual-abuser specific counseling.
She has worked with people facing complex symptoms such as dissociation, active suicidal thinking, and psychosis, and with clients who live with chronic illness, developmental differences, or neurodiversity. Dr. Smith is licensed in Colorado and Texas as an LPC.
She offers online and phone sessions as well as text and live chat formats, which many people find helpful when scheduling is tight or when they prefer shorter check-ins. Her approach is strengths-based and practical. She aims to help people find answers that fit their life.
Sessions focus on clear steps, skill building, and improving communication and coping in everyday situations.
Using CBT and Emotion-Focused Work Online
Dr. Smith blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in online sessions. CBT helps people spot and test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and shift painful interaction patterns and deepen emotional understanding in close relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. Together they try methods that fit the client’s daily life and adjust the plan as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and working on relational patterns. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and messaging are helpful for short updates, homework check-ins, or when a written exchange feels easier. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English