About Tina
Tina Paxton is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 12 years of practice. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and big life changes. Tina emphasizes practical steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
In sessions she treats relationship struggles and common challenges like communication problems, commitment worries, codependency, and blended family strain. She also supports people dealing with aging or caregiver stress, addiction concerns, and the fallout from domestic violence or past trauma.
Background and approach
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. Tina listens first, then helps people try small, manageable changes. She draws on methods that teach skills for coping with strong emotions, shifting unhelpful thoughts, and staying present when life gets chaotic.
People who connect well with her tend to want both empathy and clear tools. Tina helps clients build confidence, set realistic goals, and practice new ways of handling setbacks. She describes clients as the experts on their lives and offers guidance to amplify their strengths.
Tina works with adults in California and accepts clients internationally in English. She uses several formats for sessions, so people can choose what fits their routine. Taking the first step can be hard, and she aims to make beginning therapy as simple and respectful as possible.
Using practical approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move a person toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. Finding the right approach is part of the process. Tina will work together with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaborative decision can change over time as progress is made. Online formats make it easier to use these approaches in day-to-day life. Video calls allow face-to-face work on skills and real-time feedback. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, momentum between sessions, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options aim to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English