About Portia
Portia Reddy is a licensed marriage and family therapist who brings 16 years of clinical experience to her work. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and ADHD. Portia aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful.
Her sessions are tailored to each person’s needs. She listens for what feels most urgent and then builds a simple plan to address it. She uses practical tools to improve daily routines, relationships, and emotional coping.
Background and approach
Portia combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with mindfulness practices. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes while practicing present-moment awareness. She has published a meditation and mindfulness planner that reflects this approach.
People often come for help with relationships, career stress, grief, trauma, or questions about sexuality and identity. She also supports people managing chronic illness or persistent pain and those dealing with workplace strain or financial stress. Conversations aim to be direct and kind, focused on what can change now.
Portia works with adults in California. Her sessions emphasize clear goals, practical exercises, and regular check-ins to measure progress. She encourages clients to set small, achievable steps between sessions to build momentum.
CBT and Mindfulness Online
Portia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. CBT focuses on clear, practical steps you can try between sessions to reduce anxiety, lift mood, or manage ADHD-related challenges.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices. Mindfulness helps people notice stress reactions and respond with less reactivity, which can improve focus and emotional balance.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Portia will talk with you about your goals and try different strategies until you find what fits. She adjusts methods based on how you respond and what feels most useful in everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls work well for deeper conversation and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good shorter option or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let you check in between sessions or use brief coaching during busy days. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into work, caregiving, and other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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