Tina LaPorta, LMFT

Tina LaPorta is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps adults facing midlife transitions, stress, and relationship strain. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy easy to understand. Her style centers on practical change and honest conversation. Tina uses common-sense tools to help people manage anxiety, depression, addiction, and major life changes. She often focuses on thoughts, behaviors, and problem-solving so clients can make steady progress. Sessions are collaborative and goal oriented, with steps you can try between meetings. Her clinical background includes work in community mental health, outpatient programs, and veteran services. She has experience supporting people with trauma, PTSD, grief, and complex family-of-origin issues. That history shapes a flexible approach to different life stresses. Tina holds two master’s degrees in psychology and counseling, with a specialization in marriage and family therapy. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - and holds licensure in Arizona and Florida. Her experience spans about 15 years of clinical work. In sessions she blends cognitive behavioral ideas with client-centered conversation and solution-focused planning. Therapy often involves noticing patterns, trying new behaviors, and reviewing what works. The aim is clearer choices and fewer moments stuck in old reactions.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the client, helping them feel understood and make clearer choices. It is useful for building trust and sorting through relationship or life-change concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It introduces practical exercises to test unhelpful beliefs and to try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping during midlife transitions.

Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons for change and to strengthen commitment to goals. It is often paired with other approaches when someone faces addiction or ambivalence about major life shifts.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try fitting methods to those goals, and adjust as needed. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques feel most useful and realistic.

For practical scheduling and format questions, please confirm available session types before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-in sessions when that is helpful. It also supports continuity of care for international clients, but check session options to match your needs.