About Tina
Tina Leavitt is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Rhode Island. She holds a Master of Social Work from Rhode Island College and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Tina brings three years of clinical experience to her practice and offers a calm, steady presence for people facing worry and distress.
She focuses on practical steps that people can use right away. Sessions tend to center on naming stressors, learning skills to manage anxiety, and trying small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Tina uses plain language and concrete tools instead of jargon or long explanations. Her background includes work with a range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, depression, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses obsessions, compulsions, phobias, and the everyday symptoms of ADHD.
Her approach blends client-centered conversation with techniques from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness therapies. In session Tina emphasizes collaboration and clear goals. She draws on narrative and motivational methods to help people sort through what matters most and stay motivated to change.
Expect a warm, structured process where progress is tracked and small achievements are noticed. Tina offers several remote session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. People who prefer step-by-step plans and a calm supportive voice often find her style helpful when facing anxiety and life transitions.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs without judgment. In practice that means the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what is said, and helps people name goals and choices that feel right to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Sessions teach concrete skills such as spotting unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and trying small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and compulsive behaviors.
Mindfulness Therapy adds simple attention practices to help reduce reactivity and increase calm. These techniques can be short breathing exercises or guided attention practices that are easy to use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans can be adjusted as progress is made and new challenges appear.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for longer, interactive sessions and visual cues. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth or comfort with video is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing support between scheduled sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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