About Tomasina
Tomasina Beckford is a licensed social worker who helps people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She has a long history of guiding clients through intimacy issues and career concerns while offering coaching to build motivation and confidence. Her approach is warm and respectful.
She listens first, then tailors conversations and plans to each person’s needs. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings as well as talking through feelings in the moment.
Background and approach
Over 35 years in practice, Tomasina has worked with many concerns related to attachment, abandonment, body image, and codependency. She also supports people dealing with divorce, domestic violence, adoption and foster care, gender dysphoria, HIV/AIDS, and forgiveness issues. These topics often come up together, and she helps untangle them at a manageable pace.
Tomasina uses a mix of approaches depending on the issue. She employs client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral strategies for thinking and behavior changes, and other techniques to address trauma and intense emotions. The goal is to find tools that feel useful in daily life.
Clients meet with Tomasina from New York. She brings steady experience and a practical focus to sessions. The first meetings usually clarify goals and set small, realistic steps toward change.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Tomasina often uses client-centered therapy, which centers conversation around the person’s experience and priorities. That means sessions focus on listening, reflecting, and helping clients clarify what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through concrete exercises and homework tasks; it is useful for depression, self-esteem, and coping skills.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Tomasina will discuss different ways of working and adjust methods based on a person’s goals and preferences. She aims to build a plan together so techniques feel relevant and doable between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and reading body language. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is low. Chat and messaging work for brief check-ins, written reflection, and ongoing support between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English