Tina Argueta , LPC

Tina Argueta is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arizona with eight years of clinical experience. She is a mother and nana who brings personal warmth and steady support to conversations about painful life events. Tina focuses on women's issues such as relationship strain, grief, and identity concerns within the context of LGBTQ+ experiences when those are relevant to the person sitting across from her.

Tina creates a calm space for people to name what they are feeling and to try new ways of coping. She listens without judgment and helps clients sort through tangled thoughts. Sessions are practical and conversational, aimed at small steps clients can use between meetings.

Her work commonly addresses anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and parenting stress. She also helps with attachment and abandonment concerns, codependency, communication struggles, and navigating separation or blended family challenges. Tina supports people dealing with caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and the emotional fallout of disaster or loss.

Tina draws on methods such as acceptance and commitment approaches, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical skills, client-centered talking, and EMDR for trauma processing when appropriate. She blends these tools to match each person's needs rather than relying on a single method.

If someone wants to begin, Tina recommends a simple first step: complete a brief matching questionnaire, then schedule a session. She works with people by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging and adapts her approach to fit each client's goals and life situation.

How Tina's Approaches Translate to Online Therapy

Tina commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and choose values-based actions. ACT focuses on accepting internal experiences and committing to small, meaningful steps that align with what matters most.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete skills to change thought-feeling-action cycles.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Tina works together with each person to decide which method fits their goals and preferences. That might mean blending ACT and CBT or adding dialectical skills for emotion regulation or EMDR for trauma processing when appropriate.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video lets people see each other and use face-to-face interaction, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging support quick check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to practice skills between sessions while accommodating work, family, and other obligations.