About Tia
Tia Savage is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who blends practical problem solving with a warm, down-to-earth presence. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and relationship or parenting concerns. Her approach is straightforward and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on building everyday skills that make life easier.
She uses tools from client-centered and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small changes.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are woven into sessions to boost motivation and reduce overwhelm. Narrative ideas help people reframe hard chapters into workably hopeful stories. Tia draws on 15 years of clinical experience and a Master of Social Work from Simmons College.
She earned a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker credential in 2008 and also holds a Life Coaching Certificate from the University of New Hampshire. These roles shape her focus on skill building and practical planning. In session she pays attention to strengths and clear steps.
She helps people set realistic goals and practice skills between meetings. Parents seeking ways to support their children can expect concrete strategies and straightforward guidance. Her work often centers on transitions - moving to college, starting a job, or adjusting to change.
She also helps with grief, anger, career questions, ADHD-related challenges, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered online or by phone for people living in New Hampshire and who speak English. Tia aims to make progress feel doable.
Conversations are practical and supportive, focused on skills you can use right away.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person at the heart of decision making and focuses on listening, respect, and collaboration; it helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort through feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and routines; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps. Mindfulness therapy adds simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Then she will suggest ideas from these approaches and adjust them based on what feels most useful and doable for you.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is good for a full conversation and visual cues, phone is helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging or live chat can be used for quick skills practice or ongoing support between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school, work, or family routines while keeping focus on practical skill building and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English