About Tabitha
Dr. Tabitha Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California with 12 years of experience. She focuses on helping people notice their strengths and move toward practical goals.
Her style is collaborative and direct, and she treats therapy as a team effort between clinician and client. Clients can expect straightforward communication and a focus on honesty and accountability. Dr.
Thompson uses relationship-building skills to support people from varied ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Background and approach
She pays attention to real-life problems like stress, anxiety, grief, mood concerns, parenting strain, and struggles with identity and intimacy. Her approach blends practical techniques and attention to emotional bonds. She draws on methods that help people change unhelpful thoughts, build stronger connections, and commit to values-based action.
Sessions often include setting realistic steps and working on skills to manage moods, anger, or addictive urges. Dr. Thompson also addresses complex life situations such as adoption and foster care issues, blended household challenges, caregiver stress, attachment concerns, and recovery after trauma.
She helps people cope with life transitions, career pressure, and compassion fatigue while supporting exploration of self-worth and body image. She aims to create clear, organized plans tailored to each person. Expect attentive listening, guided problem-solving, and education when helpful.
Dr. Thompson works with clients to set achievable goals and track progress over time.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people identify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck from unhelpful habits. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change patterns that fuel stress or mood problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotions and improving connection in relationships, which can help with intimacy and communication struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Thompson will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts techniques as progress unfolds so treatment stays practical and meaningful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and do deeper check-ins, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, and ongoing reminders between sessions. These options aim to make consistent work on goals easier to maintain despite busy schedules or distance from a therapist.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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