About Berthina
Berthina McGill is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life changes. She offers straightforward support and practical tools people can use between sessions. Her goal is to help clients feel more capable and clear about their next steps.
Berthina uses methods drawn from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to help people change unhelpful thoughts and strengthen everyday coping skills. She also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to help clients set realistic goals and make steady progress.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at short-term problem solving as well as building longer-term skills. Her background includes three years of clinical practice as an LMHC in Florida. That experience has included work with concerns such as depression, bipolar mood issues, addictions, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue.
She also focuses on body image, codependency, fertility-related stress, and gender dysphoria among other topics. Berthina encourages a collaborative style: she listens to what matters most and then helps design a plan that fits daily life. She uses plain language and concrete exercises so people leave with things they can try right away.
For many clients this means simple behavioral steps, thought work, and short focused homework between sessions. People who want clear, goal-oriented support often find this approach helpful. Berthina accepts English-speaking international clients and works with a range of concerns including addiction, parenting stress, career questions, and forgiveness work.
Her practice centers on helping each person build the tools they need to move forward.
How Berthina Uses Goal-Oriented Therapies Online
Berthina commonly uses cognitive behavioral approaches to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try different behaviors. CBT involves naming thoughts and testing them with small experiments, which can reduce anxiety and depression symptoms over time.She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach simple awareness and breathing practices that calm the nervous system and improve focus. Mindfulness can help when stress, anger, or overwhelm make it hard to think clearly.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Berthina discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts techniques to fit those needs. The process is collaborative, with regular check-ins to see what is helping and what should change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit brief check-ins or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to attend sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English