About Portia
Portia Reddy uses a practical, skills-based approach to help people manage stress and anxiety. She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with mindfulness practices to help clients notice patterns, test new ways of thinking, and build calm habits.
Background and approach
Portia is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California and brings 16 years of experience to her work. She focuses on common concerns like depression, low self-esteem, and motivation.
She also helps people facing grief, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues. Her approach addresses relationship and workplace stressors, career questions, and life changes in straightforward terms.
Portia tailors conversations and plans to each person. Sessions include practical tools, short mindfulness practices, and exercises to try between meetings.
She has written a meditation and mindfulness planner that reflects this hands-on style. Portia pays attention to how past attachment patterns and communication habits shape present struggles.
She also supports people navigating ADHD, autism, chronic illness, and sexual identity concerns. Her work includes helping with financial stress, somatic symptoms, and coping with compassion fatigue.
Her style is respectful and direct. She aims to make therapy useful and doable in everyday life.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and she encourages people who decide to start.
CBT and Mindfulness Delivered Online
Portia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so practical steps can be tried between sessions and progress can be tracked.She also integrates Mindfulness Therapy, which teaches short attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Mindfulness can help with anxiety, depression, chronic stress, and coping after difficult experiences.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean more skill-building, more mindfulness practice, or a mix of both over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier with low bandwidth, live chat can be useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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