About Tanea
Tanea Couther is a licensed clinician in Maryland with 11 years of professional experience. She holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC). She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma-related concerns.
Her approach is straightforward and respectful. She listens first and then adapts the session to what each person needs. Conversations are paced to the individual - some people want direct coping skills, others want space to make sense of feelings.
Background and approach
Tanea uses ways of working that include client-centered techniques and cognitive behavioral methods. She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas and mindfulness to help manage intense emotions and panic. These approaches aim to change unhelpful thoughts, build emotion regulation, and increase present-moment awareness.
She helps people talk through relationship and family problems, communication breakdowns, and issues like guilt, shame, or emptiness. She also supports those coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, or the aftermath of abuse and loss. Sessions are shaped around practical steps as well as deeper personal work.
Her style is compassionate and direct. She partners with clients to set clear goals and track progress. For someone feeling overwhelmed by anxiety or stuck after a loss, she offers steady support and skills to move forward.
How her approaches work online
Client-centered therapy puts the person's priorities first. In practice she asks about what matters most and shapes sessions around those goals, which helps when anxiety or stress get in the way of daily life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises; it is often used for panic, anxiety, and mood problems. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving relationships through skills like distress tolerance and emotion regulation.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan depending on what helps. Clients and therapist check progress together so treatment stays relevant and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when they prefer it, while phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick updates, homework check-ins, or when someone wants to connect without a full session. These options make scheduling more flexible and help fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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