About Tanja
Tanja Hoenscheidt is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Texas with 14 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and a range of other emotional concerns. Tanja aims to create an affirming space where people feel heard and respected from the first session.
Her work often focuses on building better self-awareness and practical coping skills. She uses straightforward tools to manage panic, racing thoughts, mood swings, and impulsivity.
Background and approach
Sessions also address relationship strain, communication problems, and challenges tied to caregiving and life transitions. Tanja draws from several evidence-informed approaches. She relies on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking patterns and on acceptance and commitment strategies to clarify values and take committed action.
Mindfulness and client-centered methods are used to increase present-moment awareness and strengthen the therapeutic relationship. The practice is attentive to identity-related concerns, including LGBT issues, gender dysphoria, and adoption or foster care challenges. Tanja also supports people coping with trauma, compassion fatigue, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and self-harm risk when those topics arise in therapy.
Her style is calm, direct, and collaborative. She works with each person to build realistic goals and step-by-step plans. People can expect practical strategies, gentle accountability, and space to reflect and grow.
Online approaches that fit everyday life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small, values-based steps forward despite uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. ACT is useful for anxiety, stress, and conflicts that keep someone stuck.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thinking patterns and behaviors that fuel worry and low mood. It often includes practical exercises and homework to practice new skills between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus. These techniques can be helpful for panic, impulsivity, and improving emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. That process can involve trying different techniques and adjusting the plan over time so the tools fit day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial cues and hold longer conversations, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, on-the-go support, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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