About Tristine
Tristine Barry is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, mood challenges, ADHD, trauma, grief, and relationship concerns. Her approach centers on practical coping skills and steady support so clients can move forward at their own pace.
She favors somatic work that links body sensations to emotions, teaching breath, grounding, and movement techniques people can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) are part of her toolkit for shifting unhelpful thinking and building values-based action. She also uses client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on what matters most to the individual. Clients can expect calm listening, clear guidance, and validation.
Tristine offers hands-on practice of skills in-session and homework ideas to reinforce them. She often introduces small tech tools and mindfulness exercises to support day-to-day progress. Her background includes supporting people coping with chronic pain and trauma, as well as those dealing with career changes, eating and sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue.
She highlights strengths and works collaboratively to set realistic goals. Tristine describes her role as encouraging and empowering. She aims to be a steady partner as people learn new ways to manage emotions, improve relationships, and rebuild daily routines.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Somatic work focuses on how the body and nervous system hold emotion. In sessions this might look like guided breathing, grounding exercises, and gentle movement to notice sensations and reduce reactivity. This approach can help with anxiety, trauma responses, and chronic pain management.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while committing to actions that match personal values. It is useful for stress, mood challenges, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy targets unhelpful thought patterns and teaches practical skills to shift behavior, which often pairs well with somatic techniques for a fuller approach.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try different techniques to see what fits. Sessions are paced to the person’s comfort and adjusted over time based on progress and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to practice skills in real-life contexts, fit therapy into busy schedules, and stay connected from different locations. The variety of formats also lets people choose the level of interaction that feels most helpful for them.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English