Tina Paxton, LCSW

Tina Paxton is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 12 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. Tina emphasizes each person’s strengths and treats clients as the expert on their own story.

Her style is down-to-earth and supportive. She helps people talk through what’s happening and build practical ways to cope. Sessions are geared toward small, manageable steps rather than overwhelming lists of tasks.

Tina draws on methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness. She uses these approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and practice acceptance when change takes time.

Clients who come for relationship concerns may work on communication, commitment worries, and codependency patterns. People facing grief or life transitions get focused support for moving through loss and adjusting to new routines.

Her background includes helping with caregiver stress, blended family challenges, addiction concerns, and first responder issues. Tina also addresses family of origin patterns and control or abandonment worries. She offers services in English and accepts international clients.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on values-based action. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It often helps with depression and anxiety.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That could mean trying a skills-based focus for a while or blending mindfulness and acceptance strategies when emotion regulation is a priority.

If you plan to try online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. They also let people practice new skills between meetings in the settings where daily life happens. Licensed professionals can adjust pace and tools used during remote work to match what a person finds most helpful.