About Portia
Portia Reddy is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on practical strategies for stress and anxiety. She helps people build confidence, manage low moods, and navigate LGBT concerns. Her approach is straightforward and respectful, with attention to each person's needs.
Portia has 16 years of professional experience and practices in California. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness tools in sessions. She is also a published author of a meditation and mindfulness planner available on Amazon.
Background and approach
In a typical meeting she talks through what feels most urgent and offers simple skills to try between sessions. That can include thought work, small behavior changes, and short mindfulness practices. Sessions are tailored to what a person wants to change and how fast they want to move.
Portia pays attention to life transitions, workplace strain, and issues like grief, trauma, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, chronic illness, relationship concerns, and questions about sexuality and identity. Her style aims to be warm and direct.
She will help set clear goals and teach tools you can use right away. Taking the step to begin therapy is often hard, and she names that courage while working at a steady, practical pace.
How CBT and Mindfulness translate to online care
Portia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so people can test new ways of responding. This approach often helps with anxiety, low mood, and workplace stress.She also incorporates Mindfulness Therapy, which teaches simple breathing and awareness practices. These short exercises help reduce reactivity and improve focus, and they can be practiced between sessions to support daily coping.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Portia will work with each person to decide whether CBT, mindfulness, or a mix will fit their goals and preferences. That collaboration makes it easier to pick techniques that feel doable and relevant to real life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and demonstrations, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit short check-ins or on-the-go reflection. These options let people fit sessions into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or days with limited travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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