About Tanisha
Tanisha Crawford is a New York Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 20 years of experience supporting people through hard moments. She focuses on helping clients who are dealing with stress and anxiety and those facing changes in relationships and family life. Her work often includes practical steps for coping with grief, trauma, addiction, depression, and low self-esteem.
Tanisha centers sessions on the person in front of her. She listens carefully and helps clients name what is most troubling.
Background and approach
From there she offers clear strategies to reduce immediate distress and build reliable habits over time. She believes people bring strengths they can use to recover and grow. Her approach mixes straightforward problem solving with attention to emotions.
She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow clients' priorities and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns that keep problems going. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy help with making changes and setting realistic goals. Tanisha has worked with a wide range of concerns across her career, including attachment and adoption issues, caregiver stress, codependency, and challenges related to addiction and domestic violence.
She also helps people dealing with autism spectrum concerns, cancer, and blended family transitions. Sessions are offered in English from her New York practice, and she accepts international clients. Tanisha aims to make therapy practical and approachable so people can return to daily life with clearer tools and more confidence.
How Tanisha Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Tanisha often combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy means she follows the client's lead, listens carefully, and helps people name what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs space to talk through difficult feelings and decide goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions Tanisha helps clients spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors. This approach is helpful for anxiety, low mood, and habits related to addiction or anger.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tanisha will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their situation and goals. She adjusts the balance between problem solving and emotional support based on how the client responds.
Online therapy lets clients connect from wherever they are with flexible options. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation and full interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick access between sessions or for people who prefer writing over speaking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to try methods that work for the individual.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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