Torika Small

Torika Small is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida with seven years of professional experience. She offers a warm, supportive, and culturally sensitive approach that centers on listening closely to each person’s story. Her work addresses emotional instability, life transitions, and the lasting effects of childhood experiences, with an emphasis on uncovering patterns that contribute to current struggles.

Small uses evidence-based interventions, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), to help clients identify thought and behavior patterns and develop practical skills for managing stress and anxiety. She focuses on core concerns such as stress, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, communication challenges, guilt and shame, HIV/AIDS, impulsivity, multicultural concerns, polyamory and non-monogamous relationships, social anxiety, women's issues, and young adult transitions.

Her practice emphasizes collaboration and cultural sensitivity, aiming to create a therapeutic space where clients can explore challenges and consider pathways for growth. Torika frames treatment with concrete strategies while attending to the personal and contextual factors that shape each person’s experience.