Tina LaPorta, LMFT

Tina LaPorta brings a broad blend of clinical, academic, and federal service experience to her work with adults and adolescents who face depression, anxiety, PTSD, anger, substance use, and relationship or family challenges. With 15 years of practice, she combines classroom training and hands-on treatment to help people navigate life transitions, career difficulties, parenting struggles, and more.

She holds two master’s degrees in psychology, one focused on college teaching and the other on counseling with a specialization in marriage and family therapy. Tina began her career as an adjunct professor of psychology in the San Francisco Bay Area, and after six years in higher education she moved into clinical roles serving community-based mental health populations. In that setting she worked with adults experiencing more severe, chronic symptoms, including schizophrenia, and later provided outpatient, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization services for both adolescents and adults with mental health and substance use disorders.

Tina has counseling experience with military personnel, including active duty troops and combat veterans, and held roles within the Federal government as a psychologist at Fort Sam Houston and at Fort Bliss. She also worked with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Vet Centers as a licensed marriage and family therapist. Her professional licensure spans multiple states and she is credentialed as an LMFT, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a credential that reflects specialized training in family systems and relational work.

Clinically she favors a cognitive behavioral therapy approach while integrating client-centered, psychodynamic, motivational interviewing, solution-focused, and trauma-focused techniques as appropriate. She emphasizes practical cognitive and behavioral changes to support clients in meeting their therapy goals and improving day-to-day functioning.