About Tina
Tina Echterling is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Indiana. She draws on nine years of clinical work to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and LGBT-related concerns. Tina aims to make beginning therapy feel doable and welcoming for people who are nervous about reaching out.
Tina creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak openly about thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
She prefers a direct approach and helps clients take practical steps right away. Sessions focus on clear goals and skills that apply to daily life. Her work often includes addressing relationship strain, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and career stress.
Tina also helps people navigate family of origin issues, communication problems, and the emotional impact of divorce or separation. She listens for themes like abandonment, guilt, shame, and emptiness and helps clients name those experiences. Therapeutic tools Tina uses include client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches.
She matches methods to each person’s needs instead of using the same plan for everyone. The aim is practical change and clearer problem-solving. Tina offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She encourages people to take the first step and complete the short matching questionnaire to begin scheduling.
Approaches that guide online counseling
Tina commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on empathetic listening and helping people find their own answers; it is useful when someone needs validation and space to sort feelings. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, or unhelpful patterns.She may also use elements of dialectical behavior therapy, which teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills for people who feel overwhelmed by strong emotions. Tina approaches treatment collaboratively and will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life needs rather than insisting on one fixed model.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful when visual cues are helpful, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text can fit short check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family routines, or other commitments while keeping the focus on practical skills and progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Oregon
- Languages
- English