Dr. Tina Smith, LPC

Dr. Tina Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside client-centered principles to help people name problems, try small changes, and track what works. Her style is practical and direct, aimed at helping people get unstuck and find clearer ways forward.

She blends CBT with emotion-focused ideas to address how feelings and thoughts interact. This mix helps with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and stress from life changes. Sessions focus on concrete skills, emotion awareness, and clearer communication between partners or loved ones.

Dr. Smith has six years of experience in mental health counseling. She has worked with people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with career concerns, intimacy issues, low self-esteem, and complicated family dynamics.

Her additional focus areas include autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family issues, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, codependency, dissociation, and forgiveness work. She is experienced with gender dysphoria and supports people in the LGBT and LGBTQIA+ communities through identity and relationship challenges.

Dr. Smith offers therapy in multiple formats, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit busy schedules. For people new to counseling she starts with listening, then sets simple, measurable goals. The approach is collaborative and adapts as goals change.

How CBT and Emotion-Focused Work Translate Online

Dr. Smith commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered and emotionally focused strategies. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thought patterns and test small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. Client-centered work emphasizes listening and reflecting so people feel heard and can discover what matters to them. Emotion-Focused Therapy helps identify and process strong emotions, which can improve relationships and intimacy.

Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist listens to your concerns, learns your goals, and suggests methods that fit your situation. Together you try approaches, check progress, and adjust what you work on as needed.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let you work through body language and emotion work, phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and flexible during a work break, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports daily tracking or short reflections between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make consistent care more practical for many people.