Tonine Garberino, LMHC, LPC

Tonine Garberino is a licensed mental health counselor who emphasizes practical skills and clear goals. She uses straightforward methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, mood concerns, and intimacy-related issues. The first meetings focus on what matters now and on small steps that can make daily life easier.

With 17 years of experience, she draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Sessions are a place to talk honestly about relationships, career strain, family concerns, and challenges related to identity and LGBTQ issues. She also addresses eating concerns, bipolar and depressive symptoms, ADHD, and trauma-related reactions.

Clients can expect a supportive, nonjudgmental space where feelings and worries are named and worked through together. Tonine aims to help people build coping tools and improve communication around commitment, codependency, and intimacy. She also brings experience with adoption and foster care matters, blended family dynamics, fatherhood issues, and separation or divorce difficulties.

Her work includes attention to personality and developmental concerns such as avoidant or dependent patterns, autism and Asperger Syndrome features, dissociation, and disruptive mood dysregulation issues. Practical problem solving and skill building are used to address control issues, communication problems, and body image struggles.

Tonine is licensed in Florida and New Jersey as an LMHC and LPC. She encourages people to take the first step toward change and offers steady support while they try new approaches and habits.

How CBT and skill work translate to online care

Tonine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in ways that are practical and action oriented. CBT helps people identify thoughts that keep them stuck and then tests new ways of thinking and acting to reduce stress and anxiety or to change unhelpful habits related to addictions and eating concerns.

The work also focuses on communication and problem solving for relationship and intimacy issues. This often looks like setting small behavioral experiments, practicing new ways to express needs, and developing routines that support mood regulation and clearer boundaries.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client talk about goals and try methods that match those goals. If an approach needs adjustment, they change course together so sessions fit the person's needs and pace.

For practical arrangements, confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can use a lunch break or evening slot more easily. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT exercises for remote sessions so homework, thought records, and communication practice continue between meetings.