About Katina
Katina (Tina) Smith helps people facing relationship problems, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, and addiction concerns. She also supports people dealing with anger, self-esteem struggles, intimacy issues, eating-related concerns, bipolar symptoms, and major life changes. Tina is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor.
She has worked in Indiana for many years and brings 26 years of experience to her work. Tina aims to make therapy straightforward and practical.
Background and approach
She listens first and then helps people set small, clear goals. Sessions focus on the problems that feel most urgent, and on steps a person can try between meetings. She prefers plain talk over jargon and a steady, down-to-earth approach.
Her work draws on several methods to match what each person needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thinking patterns and helps change unhelpful habits. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on accepting and understanding a person’s experience.
Emotionally-Focused approaches help with connection and strong feelings, and mindfulness practices teach simple tools for stress and grounding. Tina has helped people cope with complex situations like blended family issues, divorce and separation, domestic violence, cancer-related stress, codependency, and trauma after disasters. She also supports those managing personality-related challenges and co-occurring concerns.
People who want a clear, compassionate guide may find her style useful. She offers practical ideas, conversational sessions, and tools people can use in daily life. Tina aims to help people move toward better emotional balance and clearer, calmer decision making.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding your experience and responding with empathy. It gives room to tell your story and helps you feel heard, which can be especially helpful for relationship or grief work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and provides concrete skills to change them; this is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative process means techniques may be combined or shifted over time to match what a person needs.
Online therapy can make fitting care into life easier. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversations without travel. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief updates, coaching-style support, or written reflection between sessions. These formats offer flexibility so people can choose what fits their schedule and communication style.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English