Occoquan, Manassas, & Virtual

She/her

Tina started her career in child welfare and has 20+ years of experience working with foster/adoptive families and children with emotional/behavioral issues. Her deep passion for helping these families and understanding family trauma led her to study in London at the world-renowned Anna Freud Center. This non-profit specializes in treating fostered and adopted children and their parents. As a result, she has a deep working knowledge of family trauma and the emotional challenges of children, including understanding their behavior. 

Tina is a warm, interactive therapist who strives to be very attuned to your feelings, thoughts, beliefs, etc. She can help you uncover both conscious and unconscious mental states that you might be unaware of or block you from feeling better and moving forward with your life/work/relationship goals. She finds that many adults who come to therapy have a history that involves a stressful childhood or have complex relationships with family members. She excels at helping you understand your trauma, how it has impacted you (and still does), and how to move through this pain to regulate yourself, freeing you from unhelpful reactions and helping you connect to others. If you are a parent, she can help you understand your emotional responses to your children and help you deal with the stress of parenting. For your children, Tina can help them learn how to regulate their emotions and, as a result, regulate their behaviors. She generally practices psychoanalytically-informed, attachment-based, relational therapy. She also uses  Mentalization-Based Therapy, an evidence-based treatment approach. 

Tina has an MA in Professional Counseling from Texas State University, an MS in Developmental Psychoanalytic Psychology, and a PhD in Theoretical Psychoanalysis from University College London and the Anna Freud Center in London. Tina is also a professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in creating and evaluating trauma-informed, attachment-based parenting interventions. In her spare time, she enjoys the outdoors, traveling, dancing, and her furry menagerie, which includes two sweet (and large!) doggies and two affectionate kitty brothers.

Insurance accepted: Blue Cross/Blue Shield (Anthem), Aetna, & Cigna. Private pay is $130 for the first session, then $110 after.