Tia Gitgood

Tia Gitgood is a licensed social worker with more than 10 years of clinical experience. She holds a Master of Social Work from Georgia State University and maintains licensure across multiple states, including Michigan, Tennessee, and Georgia. Her practice background spans in-home work and community clinic settings, reflecting a range of environments in which she has supported people through difficult transitions and ongoing concerns.

Tia draws on a combination of client-centered methods and structured skills-based approaches. She primarily uses cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and motivational interviewing, adapting techniques to address mood disorders, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep difficulties, and relationship and family challenges. She emphasizes treating the whole person and pays attention to how emotional and physical states interact.

Her professional focus includes stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar conditions, self-esteem, and coping with life changes, along with additional attention to adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, and post-traumatic stress. Tia stays current with research and blends pragmatic skill-building with collaborative goal setting. She invites prospective clients to explore whether her approach aligns with their needs when they are ready to begin work together.