Tonine Garberino, LMHC, LPC

Tonine Garberino is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people change unhelpful thoughts and everyday habits. She brings 17 years of experience and works to create a calm space where clients can speak honestly about what they are feeling. Her approach emphasizes practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier in daily life.

She commonly helps with stress, anxiety, depression, and mood concerns including bipolar disorder. She also supports people navigating addictions, relationship struggles, intimacy-related questions, and issues around self-esteem and body image. Work can include coping strategies for major life changes and attention-related challenges such as ADHD.

Sessions often explore thinking patterns and daily routines to find small, doable shifts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is a primary method used to notice thoughts, test them, and try different behaviors. This makes the work concrete and action-oriented rather than only talk.

Tonine has licensure as an LMHC and an LPC and practices in Florida. She draws on nearly two decades of client experience, helping people across a wide range of concerns including trauma, eating issues, and career or family stress.

Her manner is steady and encouraging, focused on realistic goals and practical tools. People who come for help can expect a collaborative process that targets thoughts and habits that get in the way of daily functioning.

How CBT and habit work translate to online therapy

Tonine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce distress. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and mood challenges, and it focuses on practical tools you can practice between sessions.

The work also targets everyday habits and routines. That means breaking problems into small steps, trying simple experiments in daily life, and reviewing what changed. This approach can help with addictions, self-esteem, relationship patterns, and managing attention or energy through the day.

Finding the right approach is part of the process, and the therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process looks at what feels doable and what needs to change, then adjusts plans as progress is made.

Specific online session formats are not listed in the biography, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow a quicker check-in during a workday or between errands. It can also let people try techniques from their usual daily setting and bring real-life examples into sessions for focused problem-solving.