About Tanika
Tanika Sharpe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She guides clients through life changes and supports work on self-esteem. She also addresses communication problems, money and financial issues, women's concerns, and workplace stress.
Tanika draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to make thoughts and behaviors clearer. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking, try different coping skills, and build small routines that add up.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize practical steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her background includes work in inpatient psychiatric settings, substance use treatment, and community programs. That experience shaped her focus on assessment and treatment planning, and on coordinating care when needed.
She brings three years of practice as an LCSW in Virginia. Tanika encourages a collaborative approach in sessions. She listens first, then suggests strategies the person can try between meetings.
Progress is tracked in small, doable goals so people can see change over time. Outside of clinical work she runs marathons, and she uses lessons from training in therapy. Consistency, patience, and resilience are themes she brings into the room.
Many clients find that this steady, practical tone helps when facing ongoing stress or life transitions.
Approaches to anxiety and online care
Tanika uses evidence-based techniques such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and learn new coping behaviors. CBT sessions often include identifying thought patterns, testing beliefs with small experiments, and building practical skills for day-to-day stress and anxiety.She also emphasizes behavioral strategies that increase consistency and resilience, such as routine building and graded activity. These methods help with depression, motivation, and managing cravings in addiction recovery by breaking large goals into smaller steps.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals, try out techniques, and adjust plans based on what works for the person. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods fit their needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation, while phone calls work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit brief check-ins, quick coping reminders, or scheduling around a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and still fit into work, caregiving, or other daily demands.
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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