About Tia
Tia Jackson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 27 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She offers practical support for parenting concerns, relationship strain, addictive behaviors, low self-esteem, and career-related stress. Tia focuses on clear, compassionate listening and building skills that help people cope day to day.
Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. Sessions emphasize using a person’s own life experience as a starting point.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and on acceptance strategies to help people tolerate hard feelings while moving toward valued goals. Tia also uses client-centered and solution-focused methods to keep work grounded and actionable. Motivational interviewing helps when someone is ambivalent about change.
These methods are used together to create practical steps people can try between sessions. Her background includes a Master of Science in Social Work and experience across individual and group formats. Tia has worked in multiple care settings during her career and brings a pragmatic problem-solving style.
She aims to boost coping skills, raise self-esteem, and offer new perspectives when life feels overwhelming. People who choose her work with someone who listens closely and keeps therapy focused on real-life goals. Tia frames progress as small, steady changes rather than quick fixes.
She helps clients build tools that fit into busy lives and shifting circumstances.
Approaches that guide online sessions and practical tools
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while taking actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, grief, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavioral changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an empathic, nonjudgmental listening stance that helps people feel heard and then choose their own path forward.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tia will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to use and adjust them as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and goal-oriented.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between appointments. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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