Tonine Garberino, LMHC, LPC

Tonine Garberino is a licensed mental health counselor who brings 17 years of clinical experience to her work. She is licensed as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida and as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey. She aims to create a straightforward, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters most to them.

She uses practical methods to address stress and anxiety and to help people cope with addictions and relationship concerns. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of responding to difficult situations. Tonine also supports people facing depression, bipolar symptoms, attention challenges, and issues with self-esteem or body image.

Her background includes work with trauma, intimacy-related issues, eating concerns, and life transitions such as divorce and blended family stress. She also has experience related to adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger syndrome, and personality-related difficulties like avoidant or dependent patterns.

Tonine favors clear, goal-oriented work that helps people change patterns that cause distress. She explains Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in plain terms and uses it to build practical skills for everyday life. She encourages steady steps and supports people as they try different strategies.

People who choose her can expect direct guidance, gentle challenge, and help turning new insights into real changes. She invites those ready to explore next steps to begin with a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first meeting.

How CBT and practical therapy translate to online sessions

Tonine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as a main approach, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new responses. CBT helps with anxiety, low mood, stress, and many relationship or behavior patterns by teaching concrete skills to try between meetings.

Her work emphasizes straightforward skill building and step-by-step change. That means sessions often include practice tasks, simple experiments, and checking what worked. She will collaborate with each person to decide which tools and pace fit their goals and daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will talk with clients about goals, try techniques, and adjust based on what helps. This collaborative planning makes it easier to know whether CBT or another way of working suits a person’s needs.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around work, school, or caregiving by removing travel time and allowing meetings from different locations. It can also allow shorter check-ins or avoid the need to be on camera for the whole session, depending on the format offered. These practical features often help people keep momentum while working toward their goals.