Tim Crosby
Hopeful, practical help for everyday family life
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tim
Tim Crosby is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with over 10 years of clinical experience. He focuses on practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and anger. He also works with concerns like addiction, grief, body image, and intimacy-related issues.
Tim uses straightforward language and aims to help people make decisions that fit their values and life. Tim blends several evidence-based methods into sessions to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
He often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - a skills-based approach for changing thoughts and behaviors - and Trauma-Focused techniques when people have been through traumatic experiences. He also uses solution-focused ideas to set short-term goals and existential perspectives to address meaning and values. Sessions tend to be collaborative and respectful.
Tim stresses personal autonomy and helps clients build tools they can use outside therapy. For people who prefer faith-informed care, he can offer Christian, biblically-rooted counseling on request. He frames therapy as skill-building with the aim of helping clients become more confident making their own choices.
That includes talking through difficult or sensitive topics such as sexuality, pornography, ministry burnout, or perfectionism without judgment. Tim uses approaches that encourage practical change and clearer decision making. He focuses on helping people manage symptoms, rebuild routines, and move toward goals at a comfortable pace.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Tim commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Trauma-Focused Therapy in his work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. Trauma-Focused Therapy targets symptoms after traumatic events and includes strategies to safely process memories and build coping skills.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about what feels most important and choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. That collaborative decision helps shape session pace and techniques.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, or parenting responsibilities. They also allow for follow-up and practice between sessions, so progress can continue outside appointment times.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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