Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Training to be a marriage and family therapist, Tina is completing her last year in SCU's MA program in Counseling Psychology. After earning a B.A. in English from SCU, she completed an M.A. in American & British Literature with a minor in Jewish American & Holocaust Literature at Kansas State University. Prior to returning to SCU, she taught composition and literature at West Valley College where she developed a passion for supporting the success of underserved and underprepared college students.
Tina's approach to therapy is integrative, utilizing psychodynamic, object relations, solution-focused and other evidence-based practices tailored to clients' needs. Her clinical interest include attachment, multigenerational trauma and trauma-informed therapy and the intersectionality of identity. Whether clients seek to improve interpersonal skills, develop coping strategies, process grief or explore identity formation or adjustment issues, she meets them where they are in their journey. Tina is collaborative and culturally responsive, always perceiving and engaging with, not simply the student but the whole person in their uniqueness including cultural and societal contexts. Starting with clients' current strengths, she is dedicated to helping them build internal and external resources that increase self-awareness, autonomy and belonging. She believes in people's ability to grow-to grow beyond loss, mistakes and limitations. Compassionate and warm, Tina is honored to be serving the SCU community which helped shape her commitment to learning, service and relational and mental wellness.