Tinia Holleman-Soto, LMFT

Tinia Holleman-Soto is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, mood changes, and relationship struggles. Tinia uses plain language in sessions and aims to make each person feel heard and respected.

She trained at the University of Southern California, earning a master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy. Early in her career she worked as a behaviorist with very young children with developmental delays and collaborated with speech and occupational therapists. That background gave her experience working with parents and care teams.

Over 15 years Tinia expanded her practice to support people facing depression, trauma and abuse, ADHD, grief, addictions, and life transitions. She has worked alongside psychiatrists, social workers, case managers, and school districts while supporting families and children through crises and ongoing challenges.

In sessions she draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She also uses client-centered listening to prioritize what matters to the person in front of her and attachment-based thinking to address relationship patterns. Her way of working is collaborative - she and the client decide what to try.

Tinia emphasizes practical steps and personal values. She offers help with parenting strain, caregiver stress, communication problems, commitment worries, and issues like guilt, isolation, and forgiveness. Her approach is straightforward and rooted in real-life problems, not clinical jargon.

Approach and online care that fit your life

CBT helps people spot and change thoughts and behaviors that make symptoms like anxiety and depression worse. It often focuses on small experiments and practical steps that can relieve distress and improve daily routines.

Attachment-based work looks at how relationship patterns formed early affect current close connections. This can help with intimacy-related issues, communication problems, and caregiving stress by identifying recurring patterns and trying new ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tinia collaborates with each person to choose or blend methods based on goals and preferences, and she checks in as therapy progresses to make adjustments together.

Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let you see facial cues and use screen-shared worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it simple to touch base between sessions or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied lifestyles.