About Tabitha
Dr. Tabitha Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of practice in California. She focuses on helping people notice their strengths and move toward personal and professional goals.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She values honesty and accountability in every interaction. Dr.
Thompson uses relationship building and clear communication to guide sessions. She listens closely and encourages people to speak openly about their situations. She aims to create realistic plans that match each person's needs and circumstances.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses anxiety, stress, relationship strain, grief, trauma and life transitions. She also supports concerns such as self-esteem, addiction, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and issues tied to parenting and adoption. She brings experience helping people cope with intense emotions like anger and compassion fatigue.
Dr. Thompson draws on a mix of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT). She adapts methods to fit what each person finds most useful rather than following a single formula.
She emphasizes clear, respectful communication and helps people weigh different viewpoints before making decisions. The therapeutic relationship is presented as a partnership where the client’s goals guide the work. Dr.
Thompson welcomes clients from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and accepts international clients who connect in English. Working with her involves steady, practical steps toward change. Sessions focus on building skills, improving relationships, and setting achievable goals so people can feel more able to handle life’s challenges.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being ruled by them, then move toward what matters most. It can support anxiety, stress, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to change mood and worry patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect present reactions and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Thompson collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time so sessions stay practical and relevant to the client’s life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you see facial expressions and have a conversation similar to in-person sessions. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to share thoughts between sessions. Together these options make it simpler to keep consistent care while balancing work, family, and other obligations.
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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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