About Tabitha
Dr. Tabitha Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of experience helping people notice their strengths and move toward personal and work goals. She frames therapy as a partnership and works together with clients to set realistic steps.
Her approach emphasizes honest communication and accountability. She practices in California and offers services in English, including to international clients. Dr.
Thompson focuses on relationship and stress-related concerns such as anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing ADHD, mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder, addiction struggles, and career or parenting challenges. Phobias are among the issues she lists as a focus. Her style centers on building a trusting connection and listening closely to different perspectives.
She encourages clients to speak openly and also practices active listening to understand all angles of a situation. That teamwork guides how she helps people tackle difficult choices and emotional patterns. She uses treatment plans tailored to each person and creates step-by-step goals that are realistic and measurable.
Dr. Thompson values developing emotional intelligence skills such as empathy, communication, and collaboration to support lasting change. She emphasizes education and advocacy when needed to support clients' wellbeing.
Clients can expect straightforward discussion of options and a focus on practical skills they can try between sessions. The work is collaborative, and she helps people align their actions with what matters most to them.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps toward those values while learning to tolerate difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and motivation challenges.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and behavioral changes. CBT works well for anxiety, phobias, depression, and coping with life transitions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at how emotions shape relationships and helps people notice, express, and change emotional patterns that cause pain. It can help with intimacy-related concerns, attachment issues, and communication problems.
Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, history, and daily life to decide what feels like the best fit. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what isn’t.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel, phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging allow shorter or more frequent touchpoints between appointments. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, follow-up, and practicing skills in day-to-day settings.
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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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