Tomasina Beckford, LCSW

Tomasina Beckford is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience helping people who struggle with relationships, trauma, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. She meets clients with sensitivity and respect and aims to tailor work to each person’s needs. Tomasina encourages people who feel stuck to take the first step and explore therapy as a way forward.

Her approach centers on listening first and then building practical steps together. Sessions focus on clear goals such as improving communication, managing difficult feelings, or rebuilding confidence after loss. Tomasina uses tools that help people notice unhelpful patterns and practice new behaviors that fit their lives.

She draws on client-centered methods to keep the person’s experience primary and on cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge negative thinking. For trauma and painful memories she incorporates EMDR and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when helpful. Motivational interviewing supports people who want to change habits or make big life moves.

Tomasina has worked across many kinds of relationship and identity concerns including abandonment, attachment issues, body image, codependency, and intimacy-related questions. She also supports people facing divorce, domestic violence histories, gender dysphoria concerns, and HIV/AIDS related matters.

Based in New York, Tomasina holds a New York LCSW. She works in English. If you are ready to begin, she asks that you select the continue button on this profile and complete a short matching questionnaire to schedule a first session.

How Tomasina’s Approaches Work Online

Client-centered therapy focuses on hearing the person’s experience and shaping sessions around their priorities. This approach helps people feel understood and guides the work toward what matters most to them.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It offers practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build healthier habits, which can help with depression, self-esteem, and relationship patterns.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used for processing traumatic memories and reducing their emotional intensity. In therapy it involves structured steps to help people process difficult experiences and move forward.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, comfort level, and life situation. That choice can change over time as needs evolve.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter or more flexible check-ins when needed. Because session formats are not listed here, confirm the available options before booking so you can pick what suits your routine and technology. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to work well in remote sessions, and the aim is to make therapy practical and usable in everyday life.