Tina Phillips, LMFT

Tina Phillips is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 31 years of clinical experience. She works with adults on concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, addictions, relationship problems, grief, parenting strain, and anger. Sessions focus on practical steps clients can use day to day to ease pressure and improve coping.

Tina trained in Communication Studies at UCLA and completed graduate work at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Her long career includes work in a psychiatric facility and with clients who had dual diagnoses. That background informs how she talks through symptoms, safety, and next steps with people who feel stuck.

Over the years she has spent distinct periods working with seniors, children and families, and young adults on the autism spectrum. She has also developed experience supporting people through divorce, child custody concerns, and addiction. Those settings taught her concrete problem-solving approaches for difficult transitions.

In sessions she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and change behavior. She brings Mindfulness Therapy skills to help reduce reactivity and to slow down intense emotions. Solution-Focused Therapy is used to set small, reachable goals and notice progress quickly.

Tina describes therapy as work that looks for practical solutions rather than abstract theorizing. She encourages clear steps a person can try between meetings. The tone she keeps is straightforward and focused on what is useful now.

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