About Trina
Trina Hill is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Illinois who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and depression. She writes plainly and works with clients to create a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be shared. Trina knows starting therapy can feel hard and encourages small steps forward.
Her style is practical and warm. She draws on cognitive and human-centered methods to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different choices.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, steady skill building, and noticing what matters most to the client. Trina also pays attention to how early relationships shape current reactions. Attachment-focused ideas are used to untangle patterns around trust, abandonment, and closeness.
This helps people who find themselves pulled into repeating difficult relationship dynamics. When addiction, trauma, or grief are present, she balances clear coping tools with space to process strong emotions. That can mean learning breathing or grounding techniques, changing unhelpful thoughts, and planning safer ways to cope during hard moments.
Clients can expect straightforward conversation and concrete steps between sessions. Trina brings eight years of therapy experience and a focus on collaboration. She supports people as they test new approaches and work toward clearer daily routines and more manageable emotions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to sit with difficult feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where direction feels unclear.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns of trust, closeness, and fear of abandonment. This approach can help people who repeatedly get stuck in the same relationship dynamics or who struggle with intense reactions to perceived rejection.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that fit the person’s needs. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English