Alina Ghitea, LMFT

Alina Ghitea is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on practical, solution-focused work. She combines clear strategies with a warm, reflective presence to help people move through anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship struggles. Her style is straightforward and hopeful, aimed at small changes that add up over time.

She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Attachment-based and emotion-focused ideas guide work around closeness, trust, and handling strong feelings. She also draws on client-centered and dialectical approaches to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.

Alina has six years of clinical experience and has supported people dealing with parenting concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, and life transitions. She also addresses challenges like anger, self-esteem, ADHD-related difficulties, and career stress. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care issues, multicultural concerns, and family-of-origin patterns.

In sessions she aims to create a calm, listening space where people can talk through painful memories and current conflicts. She helps clients set clear goals, practice new skills between sessions, and track progress in ways that feel realistic. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.

Alina practices in Florida as an LMFT. Sessions are offered in English and are available via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

How specific approaches shape online therapy

Alina commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, panic, mood changes, and problem-solving tasks like managing work stress or ADHD-related routines. Attachment-based ideas focus on patterns of closeness and trust that affect relationships and intimacy. This approach helps people understand how early relationships show up in current connections and guides changes in relating to others.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will explore goals, preferences, and day-to-day challenges together and adjust techniques over time. Sessions can blend methods so work stays practical and aligned with what the client wants to change.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer work and visual connection, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for quick check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work during life transitions.