About Tristine
Tristine Barry is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Florida. She uses practical, strengths-based methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and life transitions. Her manner is calm and grounded, and she focuses on offering clear tools people can use between sessions.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and take action toward what matters. Client-centered work is part of her approach, so sessions aim to follow each person’s pace and priorities rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and body-centered coping skills are woven into her sessions. That can include simple breathing, grounding, and somatic exercises to relieve tension and improve presence. She also uses motivational interviewing strategies when people are facing change related to addiction, career steps, or health goals.
Barry has about 11 years of experience working with people dealing with trauma, chronic pain, grief, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder. She also helps with relationship strain, family of origin issues, caregiver stress, and eating and sleeping problems. Practical tools and collaborative planning are central to her work.
Sessions can include technology and app-based supports when useful, along with discussions, skill practices, and short homework to reinforce progress. She aims to validate each person’s experience while offering clear next steps. People who want focused, down-to-earth support for coping and change will find a straightforward style and an emphasis on usable skills in her practice.
How ACT, CBT, and Mindfulness work online
Tristine commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral strategies, and mindfulness techniques in her online work. ACT focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present; it can help with anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. CBT helps people identify and test unhelpful thoughts and develop new behavior patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and body-awareness practices to reduce reactivity and improve day-to-day coping.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the problem at hand. That collaborative planning can include trying different techniques and adjusting over time based on what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is helpful for richer conversation and skill demonstrations, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging is useful for brief updates or reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use tools that match each person’s needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English