About Tana
Tana Marie Ruud Tennent is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 26 years of experience based in Arizona. She focuses on everyday problems that often feel overwhelming, like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She helps people who are trying to get through big life changes and those who struggle with motivation or confidence.
Tana sees clients as the experts in their own stories. She looks for and builds on strengths people already have.
Background and approach
Her style is straightforward and supportive. She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable rather than intimidating. In sessions she listens closely and helps clients name what matters most to them.
She works with practical tools to reduce anxiety and boost coping skills. Conversations often include setting small, achievable goals and practicing ways to handle stressful moments. She also helps people notice patterns in how they communicate and how those patterns affect relationships and daily life.
Improving communication skills is treated as a hands-on skill that can be learned and practiced between sessions. Tana emphasizes teamwork in therapy. She offers steady encouragement while helping clients try new responses to old problems.
Her approach is designed for people who want clear, usable steps toward feeling better and more capable. Clients who prefer direct guidance and a focus on real-world changes often find her approach useful. She provides support while helping people build confidence and regain a sense of direction.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques include practical, skill-focused work that helps with anxiety and mood concerns. One common approach teaches people to notice unhelpful thoughts, test them, and try more balanced ways of thinking; this helps reduce anxious or negative thinking over time. Another approach focuses on building coping skills and behavioral changes through small, repeatable actions to improve mood and confidence.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through multiple formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn't possible, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support. Video sessions allow visual cues and practice of communication skills, phone sessions take less bandwidth and can fit a quick break, live chat works for brief moments of support, and messaging helps maintain continuity between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives while working toward clearer coping and reduced anxiety.
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- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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