About Tabitha
Dr. Tabitha Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of experience helping people find their strengths and reach goals. She frames therapy as a partnership and works side-by-side with clients to set realistic steps toward change.
Her approach emphasizes honest communication, accountability, and practical problem solving. Dr. Thompson draws on relationship-building skills to connect with people from diverse backgrounds.
She listens carefully and helps clients untangle stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and grief.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues such as addiction, anger, self-esteem, and career concerns. Her work is grounded in clear communication. She makes time to share information, hear different viewpoints, and create plans that reflect each person’s needs and values.
Clients can expect active collaboration on treatment goals and plans tailored to their life circumstances. Dr. Thompson names empathy, teamwork, and open communication as core professional values.
She encourages honest self-reflection and models straightforward, respectful dialogue during sessions. This helps people move from stuck patterns toward more balanced choices. She integrates a mix of practical strategies and relational focus in sessions.
That can include skill-building for day-to-day challenges, exploring patterns that repeat in relationships, and coaching around life transitions. Her style is direct yet warm, with an emphasis on measurable steps and long-term progress.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small actions toward a life they care about. It emphasizes noticing thoughts without getting stuck and building habits that match what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build safer, more reliable ways of relating.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try a path that fits the person’s needs and adjust methods over time based on what helps.
Online sessions offer flexibility and several ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and shared exercises. Phone sessions work for people with lower bandwidth or when being on camera isn’t desired. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or brief skills practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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