About Tina
Tina Collins is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing relationship strain, family conflict, anger, and stress. She supports those coping with major life changes, trauma and abuse, grief, and struggles with anxiety or depression. She also works with concerns around intimacy, sleep problems, parenting stress, low self-esteem, career decisions, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Tina believes clients are the experts in their own stories. She looks for strengths people already have and builds on them.
Background and approach
Her approach is practical and direct. Sessions focus on small, usable steps that clients can try between meetings. Her style is warm and straightforward.
She encourages honest talk and sets clear goals together with each person. Tina aims to make decisions together about what to try next, adjusting plans as needed. Licensed in New Jersey as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - she brings 21 years of professional experience to her practice.
That experience includes helping people manage emotions and rebuild routines after stressful life events. For someone nervous about starting therapy, Tina emphasizes that taking the first step matters. She helps people move from feeling stuck to having a plan.
Over time the work focuses on practical coping, clearer communication, and small changes that add up.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Tina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical coping and clearer communication. One common approach helps people learn concrete skills to manage strong emotions and reduce reactivity. This can be useful for anger, anxiety, or stress when quick tools are needed to steady day-to-day functioning.Another approach emphasizes problem-solving and goal setting to address life transitions, career concerns, or parenting strain. It breaks bigger problems into manageable steps and tracks progress over time. These focused techniques are helpful when someone wants clear actions and measurable change.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Tina will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and have deeper conversations. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or family life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English