Caitlin Riggins , LCSW, CSW

Caitlin Riggins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and challenges around parenting and family life. She also supports people facing addiction, grief, self-esteem struggles, LGBT-related concerns, and major life changes. Caitlin works from Florida and brings six years of clinical experience to sessions.

She uses straightforward, collaborative sessions where the client is treated as the expert on their life. Caitlin draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and to build practical coping skills. She also uses a solution-focused lens to set clear, achievable goals during therapy.

Caitlin offers trauma-focused methods when past events are affecting daily life. Those approaches aim to reduce symptoms tied to traumatic experiences and help people regain a sense of control. She pays attention to attachment patterns, codependency, and issues like guilt, shame, or isolation that can keep problems stuck.

Sessions are aimed at short-term problem solving as well as deeper healing when needed. Caitlin emphasizes concrete tools you can use between sessions, such as thought records, behavioral experiments, and step-by-step plans for change. She frames progress as a collaborative effort and checks in often about what is and isn’t working.

Her tone is direct and supportive. Caitlin encourages people to bring whatever feels most pressing to the room and to set goals that matter to them. The work is practical, steady, and focused on helping people move forward.

Approaches you can use online

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In sessions this looks like identifying unhelpful thinking, testing beliefs with small experiments, and building concrete coping skills to reduce anxiety or depression.

Solution-Focused Therapy centers on small, achievable changes rather than long recaps of the past. The work emphasizes clear goals, quick steps you can try between sessions, and measuring what improves as you go. Trauma-Focused Therapy is used when past events continue to cause distress; it involves processing traumatic memories and learning ways to reduce reactivity and improve daily functioning.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Caitlin will discuss your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together you can try methods for a few sessions and adjust based on what helps you make progress.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you work face to face, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family, and other commitments while using the same therapeutic approaches as in-person care.