Tia Gitgood

Tia Gitgood is a licensed social worker who helps people cope with life changes, stress, anxiety, grief, and mood struggles such as depression and bipolar disorder. She brings ten years of experience across settings like in-home care and community clinics. Tia aims to make therapy feel usable and relevant for everyday life.

She received her Master’s Degree in Social Work from Georgia State University and holds LMSW and LCSW credentials. Tia keeps up with current research and draws on what works to support each person she sees. Her background includes working with people affected by trauma, post-traumatic stress, and caregiver strain.

In sessions she mixes straightforward tools and conversation. Tia commonly uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful patterns and dialectical behavior ideas to manage strong emotions. She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change.

Tia describes her approach as treating the whole person - emotions and body together. She listens for practical steps clients can try between sessions. The work is collaborative and paced to fit what each person can manage.

People seeking help for adoption and foster care concerns, control issues, sleep problems, guilt, or coping after disasters will find these areas listed among her focuses. She practices in Michigan and works in English. To begin, clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule based on availability.

How Tia's Methods Work Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a persons perspective. The therapist follows the clients lead and helps them notice their strengths and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that contribute to anxiety or depression.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Tia works together with each person to choose which methods to use based on their needs, goals, and what feels manageable. That collaborative decision making helps people try tools that fit their life and adjust as they go.

Confirm the current session options before booking so you know how she is seeing clients. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when helpful. It can also let people use video or phone in ways that match their comfort level and bandwidth. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT and client-centered techniques to online sessions, focusing on practical skills, emotion regulation, and goal setting that translate across meeting formats.