Tina Beshers

Tina Beshers is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 15 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, and anger. She creates an affirming, nonjudgmental space where people can be heard and begin to make changes. Tina works with adults from diverse backgrounds, including members of the LGBTQ+ community, and she welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by life transitions or mental health challenges.

Her approach blends practical techniques with a focus on values and present moment awareness. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness tools to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new responses. Sessions aim to build skills for managing symptoms like panic, low mood, sleep problems, or substance use.

Tina has worked with people affected by trauma, bipolar disorder, personality-related struggles, and co-occurring substance issues. She also supports those dealing with grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image or eating concerns. Her background includes experience across age groups and with military veterans.

In sessions she focuses on clear, manageable steps - small behavior changes, practical coping skills, and value-based goals. She emphasizes collaboration so goals match what matters most to the person in front of her. Tina explains techniques plainly and checks in about what is or is not helping.

To start, she invites people to share what feels most urgent and then builds a plan from there. Her style balances skill teaching with empathic listening, helping people reclaim everyday functioning and steadier mood over time.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while accepting uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. It can help with ongoing anger, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and behavior changes to reduce symptoms like panic, low mood, or sleep problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and grounding skills to reduce reactivity and increase present moment control.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels useful. That collaboration helps match methods like ACT or CBT to the person's needs and preferences.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time. It also makes it possible to practice skills between appointments in real-life settings. Licensed professionals can guide the process and adapt exercises so they work well in remote sessions.