About Tonia
Dr. Tonia Hoskins is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and relationship concerns. She also supports people facing parenting strain, career shifts, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and other life changes.
Dr. Hoskins practices from Georgia and brings eight years of clinical experience to her work. She prefers a straightforward, person-focused style in sessions.
Conversations start with what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
She uses practical techniques and listening to help people name problems and try small changes that can make a difference. Her background includes a Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Social Work from Georgia State University and a PhD from Walden University. Her doctoral research looked at African American women’s experiences with European American clinicians.
Those studies inform how she talks about culture and identity in therapy. Dr. Hoskins has worked in forensic roles, served as a veterans department coordinator, and held clinical leadership positions that included quality assurance.
She has experience providing mental health services for veterans and worked with diverse communities in both clinical and educational settings. In sessions she draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, emotionally-focused work, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Those approaches guide practical steps, emotion-focused conversations, and attention to thoughts and behavior.
She offers therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Dr. Hoskins often draws on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral ideas in online therapy. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead so they feel heard and understood; it helps when someone needs a steady, accepting space to talk through concerns. Cognitive behavioral approaches look at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and introduce practical steps to change unhelpful patterns; this can be useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dr. Hoskins will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. She tends to blend emotion-focused listening with practical strategies, and will adjust the plan as needs change so therapy stays relevant and workable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and have deeper conversations, while phone sessions can fit a break at work or when less bandwidth is available. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or follow-up between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of working together.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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