About Tomasina
Tomasina Beckford is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of practice in New York. She helps people facing relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. Tomasina aims to create a respectful and sensitive space for each person she meets.
She uses straightforward conversation to learn what matters most to each client. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. Tomasina adapts her approach to match a person’s goals and life situation rather than using one fixed method.
How Tomasina works
Her work draws on several evidence-based approaches, chosen to fit the problem at hand. Tomasina blends short-term strategies for coping with longer-term work on patterns that keep causing trouble. She pays attention to how early relationships and attachment shape present difficulties.
Clients often bring concerns about intimacy, codependency, body image, and complicated grief tied to abandonment or adoption and foster care. She also addresses issues around kink and alternative sexual culture, gender dysphoria, domestic violence, and living with HIV or AIDS when these topics are part of someone’s story. Tomasina encourages practical homework, clear communication skills, and steady progress toward goals.
She supports people as they build better coping skills, repair important relationships, and regain a sense of direction in work and life.
Tomasina lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Tomasina works with
The areas below are the ones Tomasina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How Tomasina’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an accepting, nonjudgmental stance and focuses on what the client wants to address. In sessions the therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects feelings, and helps clarify goals so people feel heard and understood.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and to build new habits for mood, anxiety, and relationship problems.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used for processing traumatic memories and reducing their emotional impact. It involves guided approaches to help people reprocess distressing experiences and move forward.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and help decide which methods fit a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. This is a collaborative process and the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions support face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and messaging lets people check in between meetings or do shorter updates. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while using techniques from CBT, Client-Centered Therapy, and EMDR in practical ways.
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