Tonesha Bivins

Practical, person-centered care for lifes challenges

LPC Georgia

Experience: 5 years in practice
Focus areas: Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Grief
Approaches: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
Languages: English

About Tonesha

Tonesha Bivins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who brings five years of clinical practice to helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, trauma, and a broad range of life challenges.

Background and approach

She addresses concerns including addiction, intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, parenting, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and issues tied to sexuality and LGBT identity, along with additional focuses such as abandonment, codependency, fertility-related worries, and post-traumatic stress. Her practice emphasizes a person-focused, collaborative stance that treats each client as a whole individual.

Sessions are tailored to the needs presented, drawing on cognitive-behavioral strategies alongside narrative, solution-focused, and trauma-focused methods to build coping skills, improve problem-solving, and foster personal growth. Tonesha considers the social, emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions of a person when shaping treatment.

She offers a supportive, empathic presence and works to strengthen clients' existing resources while introducing targeted techniques to address specific symptoms and patterns. Located in Georgia, she brings a practical, strengths-based orientation to therapy and aims to help clients clarify goals and make meaningful changes over time.

Approaches That Translate to Online Care

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more effective, realistic alternatives; it is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and many daily coping challenges. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the therapist's empathic, nonjudgmental support and centers the client's own goals and pace, which can help with self-esteem, relationship concerns, and personal growth. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe their life stories by separating problems from identity and exploring alternative meanings, useful for trauma, grief, and longstanding patterns.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the collaborative work. The therapist will partner with clients to assess goals and preferences, adapting methods such as CBT or narrative techniques to match what is most helpful for the individual's circumstances and objectives.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy lives or to maintain continuity when in-person visits are difficult. These formats support ongoing skill practice, regular check-ins, and timely coaching between sessions while allowing licensed professionals to provide care across distance.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns can be addressed in sessions?

She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties, addictions, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, career concerns, and related areas such as abandonment, codependency, and fertility issues.

How would you describe the therapeutic style?

The approach is client-centered and collaborative, adapting interventions to each person's needs while emphasizing empathy, strengths, and practical coping skills to support growth and problem solving.

What is the therapist's background and experience?

The clinician has five years of experience working in counseling and crisis-intervention settings and brings that practice background to individual sessions.

What credentials and location apply to this therapist?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with the credential GA LPC LPC012111 and practices in Georgia.

Which languages are available for sessions and can international clients join?

Sessions are offered in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.

What session formats are offered for therapy?

Clients can choose from video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit their needs and scheduling preferences.

How are fees and subscriptions handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What are the steps to begin working together?

To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesGrief Self esteem Depression

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentCodependencyCommitment issuesControl issuesFamily problemsFertility issuesIsolation / loneliness Post-traumatic stressSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSexualitySocial anxiety and phobia

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Narrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

5+ years

Licensed

Georgia

Languages

English