- Years in practice
- 29
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Tabitha
Tabitha Duckworth is a licensed clinical social worker with 29 years of experience. She brings a calm, practical approach to sessions and focuses on helping people sort through stress, relationship strains, grief, mood concerns, and parenting challenges. Tabitha speaks English and practices from Florida as an LCSW.
She uses simple, hands-on methods so people can notice change quickly. Sessions often focus on identifying strengths, shifting unhelpful thinking patterns, and improving communication.
Background and approach
Parents find her approach useful for managing the daily pressures of raising children and navigating blended family or adoption-related concerns. Tabitha blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to match each person’s needs. That mix helps with mood issues like depression and bipolar, anxiety, trauma and abuse recovery, and intimacy or attachment concerns.
She also supports people facing caregiving stress, chronic illness, addiction, and major life transitions. Her work emphasizes practical tools - short exercises, real-life communication practice, and clear steps to try between sessions. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help sustain change and build motivation when progress stalls.
Expect a collaborative pace where goals are set together. Across nearly three decades she has helped individuals, couples, groups, and families. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care questions, aging and caregiver issues, cancer and chronic pain concerns, and challenges like codependency or communication problems.
Tabitha aims to provide steady support while people learn new ways to manage life’s demands.
What Tabitha works with
Everything Tabitha lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Tabitha helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tabitha lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online parenting and life work
Tabitha often draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy during online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening carefully and helping people find their own strengths and goals, which can be useful when parents need support or encouragement. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or change unhelpful reactions.She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people improve important relationships and attachment patterns. That approach helps partners and individuals understand emotional responses and practice new ways of connecting, which can reduce conflict and increase closeness over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tabitha will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls let the therapist and client read nonverbal cues and practice conversations in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make scheduling more flexible for parents and people with busy lives.
Questions people ask about Tabitha
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, parenting, addiction, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapy style?
Sessions are collaborative and practical, combining client-centered listening with CBT, emotionally-focused work, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to build skills and momentum.
How much experience does she have?
She has 29 years of social work experience supporting individuals, couples, groups, and families across a range of concerns.
What are her credentials and location?
She is an LCSW practicing in Florida.
Which languages are available?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
Sessions are available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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