Works with
How Tina works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC, LMHC
- Licensed in
- Indiana, Oregon
- Years in practice
- 9
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
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 experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and addiction-related concerns. Tina aims to make the first step easier by offering a direct, straightforward style in sessions.
Her approach focuses on building an open, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they think and feel.
Background and approach
She blends client-centered principles with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. This mix helps clients notice unhelpful patterns, try new responses, and track small changes over time. Tina also uses motivational interviewing to support people who are ready to change behaviors like substance use.
Narrative therapy techniques are used when examining how life stories shape current choices and feelings. Together these methods are applied to issues such as relationship stress, grief, self-esteem struggles, family of origin concerns, and compassion fatigue. Sessions emphasize clear, action-oriented steps alongside empathetic listening.
Tina often works with clients on communication problems, control issues, codependency, and coping with life changes like divorce or aging. Practical exercises, goal-setting, and short homework tasks are commonly part of the work. People who prefer a direct therapist who also listens will find Tina’s style well suited to tackling immediate problems and building long-term skills.
She welcomes honest conversation and partners with clients to create realistic plans for change.
What Tina works with
Everything Tina lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Tina's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tina lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person's experience first by listening carefully and shaping sessions around what matters most to them. This approach helps people feel heard and supports work on concerns like anxiety, depression, or relationship strain. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replacing them with practical alternatives. CBT is often used for stress, anger, and mood concerns and typically includes homework to practice new skills between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to choose or combine methods based on goals, needs, and personal preferences. Together they review what works, adjust techniques, and track progress so treatment stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions offer flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a busy day or lower bandwidth, live chat works for quicker check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between scheduled talks. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life while using the approaches above to address stress, anger, addictions, and other concerns.
Questions people ask about Tina
What concerns does Tina commonly address?
Tina works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, anger, depression, addictions, grief, relationship and family of origin issues, and career or life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses a direct, dive-right-in approach while keeping sessions open and nonjudgmental. Sessions often combine listening with practical exercises and goal-setting.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Tina has nine years of professional experience working in mental health settings and with individual clients on a range of issues.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds LPC and LMHC credentials and practices in Indiana.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Tina provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.