About Tonine
Tonine Garberino is a licensed mental health counselor who uses a practical approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood challenges, and addiction concerns. She draws on 17 years of experience to guide clear steps for coping and change. Tonine meets people where they are and focuses on small, doable goals that build confidence over time.
Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through difficult feelings and decisions.
Background and approach
She listens for the specific patterns that keep problems active and helps identify simple experiments to try between sessions. Conversations are straightforward and focused on what will make daily life easier. Her work often centers on relationship strains, intimacy questions, and career or family stress.
Tonine also supports people facing depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, eating and body-image struggles, and trauma-related issues. She pays attention to how thoughts and behaviors interact in these areas. Tonine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thinking and actions shape mood and habits.
That method translates into concrete tools people can practice on their own. Over years of practice she has refined ways to make those tools fit real life. Based in Florida and licensed as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor, Tonine frames therapy as a partnership.
She helps people take the next step toward clearer choices and more manageable days.
How CBT and online sessions work together
Tonine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and change patterns that feed stress, anxiety, or low mood. CBT breaks problems into small parts so a person can try different behaviors and see what helps. This approach is often useful for anxiety, depression, addictions, and concerns about self-esteem or eating.Therapy should fit the person as much as the problem, so Tonine treats the choice of approach as a team decision. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and adjust techniques accordingly. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels manageable and relevant.
Online formats expand how someone can connect with a licensed professional. Video calls let the conversation feel most like an in-person visit. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or have shorter, focused exchanges when a full call is not possible. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
Questions people ask
What issues can Tonine help with?
How does she approach therapy?
What is her experience?
What credentials and location apply?
Can sessions be conducted in other languages?
What formats are available for sessions?
How much do sessions cost?
How do I begin working with her?
What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New Jersey
- Languages
- English