- Collaborative sessions
- Skills and insight
- Family-focused help
About Tinia
Tinia Holleman-Soto is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who supports parents and individuals facing family and parenting pressures. She offers steady, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, mood shifts, or relationship strain. Her style is calm and team-oriented, so parents can expect a collaborative, nonjudgmental space to talk through pressing concerns.
She earned her Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Southern California and holds a California LMFT. Early in her career she worked as a behaviorist with very young children who had developmental delays, collaborating with speech and occupational therapists and regional service teams. That early work shaped her focus on real-world solutions for families.
Over 15 years she shifted into clinical work with children, teens, and family systems. She has experience supporting parental coping around developmental delays, ADHD, depression, anxiety, trauma, and crisis situations. She has also worked alongside psychiatrists, social workers, case managers, and school districts to coordinate care.
Her sessions draw on person-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and existential ideas about living in line with personal values. In practice this looks like helping clients notice thought and behavior patterns, try small changes, and make choices that reflect what matters most to them.
Parents who want practical strategies for parenting challenges, help with family conflict, or support managing stress may find her approach useful. She frames therapy as a collaborative effort to reduce pain and create clearer next steps.
How these approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships. Online sessions using this lens help people notice patterns in how they connect and respond in close relationships, which can ease parenting and family tensions.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and seeing the person without judgment. In virtual sessions this means the therapist follows the client’s lead, creating space to talk through hard topics and explore what feels most important in parenting and family life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. Remotely this often involves identifying unhelpful thinking, testing small behavior changes between sessions, and reviewing results to build workable skills for stress and mood management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose or blend methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That process may change over time as priorities shift or new challenges arise.
If you plan to try online sessions, confirm the current session formats before booking since the biography does not list specific options. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy family routines, shorten commute time, allow quick check-ins during a work break, or use audio-only when bandwidth is limited. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches so practical skills and emotional insight carry over into everyday family life.
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Experience
15+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she commonly address?
She works with issues such as parenting strain, family problems, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD, addictions, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and nonjudgmental, combining person-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral steps and existential reflection to help clients make meaningful changes.
What is her professional background?
She has 15 years of clinical experience and began as a behaviorist working with young children with developmental delays before moving into family and child mental health settings.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) licensed in California and completed a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at the University of Southern California.
Are sessions available in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography does not specify session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session based on the therapist’s availability.