Dr. Tabitha Thompson, LCSW
California · 12 years in practice
Dr. Tabitha Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on helping people notice and use their own strengths.
License and registration
- LCSW, California
- 28634 · expires September 2027
- NPI
- 1548856867 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 12
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Tabitha
Dr. Tabitha Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on helping people notice and use their own strengths. She approaches therapy as a partnership and works with clients to set clear, achievable goals.
Her style is direct and honest while staying respectful and attentive. She believes good communication matters. In sessions she listens closely and helps clients say what they mean and understand what others are saying.
Background and approach
She emphasizes honesty and accountability as tools for change and models those values in the work she does. Dr. Thompson draws on multiple approaches, including Existential ideas about meaning, acceptance and commitment strategies for handling difficult thoughts, and attachment-informed thinking about close relationships.
She uses practical steps and conversation to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and relationship problems. Her background includes 12 years of clinical work in California with people facing issues such as trauma, grief, addiction, parenting strain, career concerns, and ADHD. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, blended family challenges, body image, codependency, and other relationship stresses.
Sessions are collaborative and tailored. She helps people build realistic plans, practice new ways of communicating, and set manageable steps toward longer term goals. Dr.
Thompson aims to create a straightforward, respectful space where people can try out changes and grow.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Tabitha lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tabitha names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that guide online sessions
Dr. Thompson uses Existential Therapy to help people consider meaning, values, and life choices when they face difficult transitions or persistent unease. Existential work can help when someone wants to re-evaluate priorities or find clearer direction. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used to teach ways to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while pursuing meaningful action; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with change. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior, which can be useful for people struggling with intimacy, communication, or trust.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. That means trying different ideas, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than assuming one fixed method.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face when they can, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can fit short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use the formats that feel most comfortable.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, and related concerns such as ADHD and body image.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is collaborative and direct. She listens closely, values honesty, and works with clients to set clear, realistic goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 12 years of clinical experience working with people on a wide range of emotional and relational issues.
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
She is based in California and holds the Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, listed as LCSW.
Can I work with her if I live outside the U.S.?
International clients are accepted and sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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