Corina Istanich, LMHC

Corina Istanich is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, and life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and practices from Florida. Corina aims to build a straightforward, caring relationship and to help people find practical steps forward.

She favors Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a foundation and often blends techniques from client-centered therapy, DBT, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work when it fits. Sessions emphasize clear communication skills, coping tools, and boundary-setting to ease daily strain and improve relationships. Expect a mix of reflection and concrete exercises to try between meetings.

Corina has about ten years of experience in counseling settings, including time working in inpatient addiction treatment and community agencies. That background shaped her focus on substance use, communication problems, compassion fatigue, and parenting challenges. She draws on hands-on experience to help people address the practical parts of recovery and change.

She prefers video sessions because seeing each other makes it easier to notice reactions and cues. Phone or live chat can be used when video is not possible. Corina frames therapy as a collaborative effort where goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made.

Her approach mixes direct guidance with empathy. She encourages learning new coping strategies, practicing them between sessions, and using therapy to strengthen everyday relationships.

How Corina uses practical therapies online

Corina commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday problems because it breaks issues into concrete steps and actions.

She also draws from Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening closely and creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space. That approach helps people feel heard and to explore their goals at their own pace. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotion regulation, distress tolerance, or strong reactions get in the way of daily life; those skills teach practical ways to manage intense feelings.

Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Corina collaborates with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan as progress is made. She brings both practical exercises and empathic support to the process.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging can make care easier to fit into a busy life. Video is preferred for richer interaction and reading visual cues, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat can suit brief check-ins or scheduling needs. These options provide flexibility so people can choose what works for them.