Tabitha King, LCSW

Tabitha King is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with four years of clinical experience supporting children, adolescents, and adults through depression, anxiety, trauma, and major life transitions. As a former Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), she has practiced in both New Mexico and Texas and draws on that range of experience to tailor care to each person's background and circumstances.

Tabitha provides LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy, meeting clients with respect, compassion, and acceptance. Her work emphasizes a client-centered, solution-focused, and strengths-based approach that recognizes each person as the expert of their own story. She integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to offer practical tools for managing emotions, changing unhelpful patterns, and building coping skills.

In sessions she highlights clients' existing strengths and collaborates on achievable goals, especially around stress, social anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and young adult concerns. Tabitha also supports people navigating autism or Asperger syndrome, communication difficulties, and efforts to cultivate self-love. She acknowledges the courage it takes to begin therapy and offers a supportive, steady presence for those ready to take that step. As an LCSW, Tabitha holds an advanced clinical license to provide psychotherapy and ongoing mental health treatment.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Support and Skill Building

Tabitha draws on client-centered therapy, which places the client's experience and goals at the forefront and emphasizes empathy, active listening, and collaboration to help people feel understood and guided toward their own solutions. This approach is especially useful for those seeking validation and a strengths-oriented path forward.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. CBT offers practical strategies for managing symptoms of anxiety and depression and for improving daily functioning. Additionally, Tabitha incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be helpful for intense emotions and relationship challenges.

Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Tabitha works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan over time as progress is made.

Online therapy with Tabitha is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility to meet people where they are. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities and can increase access to consistent support from a licensed professional.