About Trina
Trina Hill is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois who supports people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression.
Background and approach
With eight years of experience as an LCSW, she focuses on helping clients work through complicated emotional challenges such as abandonment and attachment concerns, caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, communication problems, and the fallout from divorce or separation.
Other areas she attends to include forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation, life purpose questions, midlife transitions, financial stress, obsessive-compulsive patterns, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress. Her style centers on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored honestly.
She draws from evidence-informed approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to tailor work to each person’s situation. Trina aims to help clients clarify their values, practice present-focused skills, and build more effective patterns for coping and relating.
She encourages those taking the first steps toward support and offers practical guidance and emotional validation throughout the therapeutic process.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while clarifying personal values and committing to meaningful action; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns of relating and emotional bonds formed over time, helping people understand how early attachment experiences influence current relationships and reactions to loss or abandonment.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful in session, adapting techniques from ACT, attachment work, and client-centered methods to suit individual needs. This shared decision making helps shape a plan that fits each person’s situation rather than relying on a single method.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to schedule support around work and life demands. These options allow ongoing access to a licensed professional from different locations and can make it simpler to practice skills between sessions and maintain continuity of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English