Tina Phillips, LMFT

Tina Phillips is a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 31 years of experience. She focuses on practical steps people can take when life feels overwhelming. She encourages straightforward conversation and helps clients find clearer ways to cope with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and relationship struggles.

Her work draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy. She uses these methods to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice calm awareness, and set concrete goals that move them forward. Sessions tend to focus on what is most useful right now and on skills that can be used between meetings.

Tina has a broad background across age groups and settings. Her past roles include work in a psychiatric facility, support for people with dual diagnosis, and extended experience with seniors, children and families, and young adults on the autism spectrum. She has also supported people through divorce, child custody questions, and addiction recovery.

She also helps with caregiving stress, cancer-related concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and coping with major life changes. Her practice emphasizes short-term problem solving alongside longer work on self-esteem, intimacy, and career questions.

If someone wants to begin, she asks people to complete a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule a time that fits. Tina works with people in California and accepts international clients who speak English.

How Tina Uses CBT, Mindfulness, and Solution-Focused Work Online

Tina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. That approach is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation by focusing on practical changes in thinking and routine.

She also incorporates Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices. Mindfulness can help reduce reactivity, improve sleep, and ease stress by training awareness of present-moment experience.

Solution-Focused Therapy is used to set clear, short-term goals and identify small steps that make a difference quickly. It helps people focus on what is working and build from there rather than getting stuck on problems.

Finding the right mix is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match approaches to their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying methods, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as therapy progresses.

Confirm the exact session formats before booking, since the biography does not list specific delivery options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time so people can focus on steady progress.