- Years in practice
- 26
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Anger management
About Katina
Katina (Tina) Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who helps people facing parenting challenges, relationship stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. She brings 26 years of clinical experience and a warm, down-to-earth manner to sessions. Tina aims to help clients reduce hurt, build healthier patterns, and find more peace in daily life.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. She listens first and then helps clients set clear goals. Tina uses techniques from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral methods, and emotionally-focused strategies to address communication problems, anger, and intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
Many clients come for help coping with major life changes, trauma, addiction, or struggles with self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with eating concerns, bipolar mood swings, and stress tied to medical issues such as cancer. Tina pays attention to how past losses or abandonment shape current behavior and relationships.
Sessions typically focus on building skills that can be used right away. That might mean learning new ways to respond to anger, trying small behavioral changes, or practicing mindfulness to reduce anxiety. She also uses motivational interviewing to help people move toward healthy choices.
Tina has worked across a wide range of concerns and settings over a long career. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and helps each person find a pace that fits their life. People who prefer a practical, compassionate guide may find her style helpful.
What Katina works with
Everything Katina lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Katina helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Katina lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your perspective. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so you can describe what matters most and decide what to change. This approach helps with self-esteem, grief, and building better parenting responses.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and change unhelpful behavior patterns. CBT often includes short tasks to practice between meetings.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on identifying and shifting emotional responses that keep relationship patterns stuck. It can help people improve communication and address intimacy-related concerns by noticing feelings and trying new interaction patterns.
Choosing an approach is a joint process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together you can try different methods and adjust the plan based on how it feels and what produces progress.
Online formats offer flexible ways to work. Video calls approximate an in-person visit and are useful for deeper conversations. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people send thoughts between sessions and fit therapy into busy days. These options make it easier to keep momentum while managing work, school, and parenting duties.
Questions people ask about Katina
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She supports people with parenting struggles, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, stress, grief, addiction, eating-related concerns, and coping with life changes.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She listens first, then works collaboratively to set goals and try practical strategies you can use between sessions.
How long has she been practicing?
She has 26 years of experience as a clinician working in a variety of settings and with many different presenting problems.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds the LMHC credential and is licensed in Indiana.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she also accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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