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I'm a licensed psychotherapist in S. California, with 30 years experience in counseling individuals and couples and author of 13 books in 16 languages, including Money, Sex and Kids: Stop Fighting About the Three Things That CanRuin Your Marri
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Tina Tessina
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Advertising
Languages I speak
English
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073235
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I'm a licensed psychotherapist in S. California, with 30 years experience in counseling individuals and couples and author of 13 books in 16 languages, including Money, Sex and Kids: Stop Fighting About the Three Things That Can
Ruin Your Marriage (Adams Media Jan 2008) The Unofficial Guide to Dating Again
(Wiley) and the forthcoming The Commuter Marriage: Keep Your Relationship Close While You're Far Apart. (Adams Media, April 2008)
I also publish The "Happiness Tips from Tina" e-mail newsletter; the "Dr. Romance" blog at
http://drromance.typepad.com/dr_romance_blog/and hosted a weekly hour long radio show:"The Psyche Deli: delectable tidbits for the subconscious." I am an online expert, answering questions at www.CouplesCompany.com and Yahoo!Personals at http://personals.yahoo.com...
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Licensed psychotherapist/marriage counselor actively in private practice daily
Books & Articles Published
Money, Sex and Kids: Stop Fighting about the Three Things That Can Ruin Your Marriage
(Adams Media 2008) 1-59869-325-6
The Commuter Marriage (coming out from Adams Media in 2008)
It Ends With You: Grow Up and Out of Dysfunction (New Page) ISBN 1-56414-649-9
The REAL 13th Step (New Page) ISBN #1-56414-548-4
How To Be a Couple and Still Be Free (New Page)ISBN #1-56414-549-2
The Ten Smartest Decisions a Woman Can Make After Forty (Renaissance) ISBN#
1-58063-181-9
The Unofficial Guide to Dating Again (Wiley) ISBN#0-02-862454-8
Gay Relationships: How to Find Them, How to Improve Them, How to Make Them Last
(Tarcher/Putnam) ISBN# 0-87477-566-3
The 10 Smartest Decisions A Woman Can Make Before 40 (HCI) ISBN#1-55874-614-5
Awards, Associations & Memberships
LMFT license #MX13629, State of California, 1979
American Society of Journalists and Authors; California Assoc. of Marriage, Family Therapists, American Association of Marriage, Family Therapists, American Psychotherapy Association
Diplomate: American Psychotherapy Association since 1998
Media Experience
Expert for major magazines and websites: Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Time, O: The Oprah Magazine
Columnist for: Yahoo!Personals.com Dating Expert currently/ Publish Happiness Tips from Tina Newsletter
CouplesCompany.com The Dating Doctor since 1999
Educational Background
Certification: Supervisior of Marriage, Family Therapy Interns 2002
Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, Pacific Western Univ. 1988
MA, Counseling Psychology, Lindenwood Colleges, 1978
Office Address 1
1055 Junipero Avenue
City
Long Beach
Zip/Postal Code
90804
Office Phone
562-438-8077
Home Phone
562-438-8077
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