About Tina
Dr. Tina Lott centers her work on people facing complex challenges such as addictions, trauma, mood disorders, relationship and intimacy issues, and struggles with self-esteem and control.
Background and approach
With a focus that also includes grief, sleep and eating concerns, LGBT matters, and family dynamics, she aims to help clients navigate patterns like abandonment, codependency, and cultivating self-love. Dr.
Lott brings 11 years of clinical experience and holds LCPC and LMHC credentials, along with a background in counselor education. She completed undergraduate studies in psychology with a minor in addiction, earned a master’s degree in 2011, and completed a doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision in 2018.
Her professional involvement includes membership in state and national counseling organizations and service on a board related to counselor education. In addition to clinical work, she teaches at the graduate level and pursues research on stigma surrounding mental illness and addiction.
Outside of her professional roles she enjoys family time, fitness, painting, travel, and reading.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Many clients benefit from structured, evidence-based methods that address emotional regulation, behavior patterns, and trauma-related symptoms. One commonly used approach focuses on skill-building for emotion and stress management, teaching practical coping strategies to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and mood instability. Another approach targets maladaptive relationship patterns and codependency by exploring interpersonal dynamics and developing healthier boundaries and communication skills.Choosing the right therapeutic approach is collaborative and may evolve over time. The therapist works with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences, and then recommends techniques that fit the situation while adjusting them as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to maintain continuity of care when in-person meetings are not possible. These remote formats allow licensed professionals to provide consistent support and skill coaching across a variety of concerns, while giving clients multiple ways to engage that suit their comfort and lifestyle.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Arizona, Washington
- Languages
- English