About Tanya
Tanya D Mizell is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 23 years of experience based in Michigan. She focuses on helping people who face stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and challenges related to mood or neurodevelopmental differences. Tanya works in a direct, practical way and keeps sessions clear and goal oriented.
She draws on a range of approaches to fit each person’s needs, including client-centered techniques and cognitive behavioral principles. Sessions often include simple skill practice, problem-solving, and conversational work to unpack recurring patterns.
Background and approach
Tanya uses motivational interviewing to support change and to build on what already works for each person. Her background includes long-term clinical work with people coping with trauma, co-occurring conditions, and complex life transitions. Tanya has experience helping those managing bipolar disorder, ADHD, addiction-related concerns, and relationship or intimacy challenges.
She also supports issues such as body image, caregiver stress, and work-related strain. Tanya’s training blends counseling, forensic perspectives, and career guidance. She holds a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and practices in Michigan as an LPC.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward, aimed at helping people make steady, practical changes. People who choose her often want a therapist who listens closely, sets clear goals, and uses techniques that can be practiced between sessions. She helps clients break problems into manageable steps and track progress over time.
How Tanya’s Approaches Work Online
Tanya often uses client-centered therapy to build a respectful and listening-based relationship where the person's goals guide each session. This approach helps when someone needs a calm space to talk through difficult feelings and to decide what matters most to them.She also incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on noticing unhelpful thinking and testing practical changes. CBT works well for worries, anxiety, and mood problems because it gives concrete steps and exercises to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tanya treats that as a team effort - she will help identify which methods match a person’s needs, goals, and preferences and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed, and chat or text can support shorter updates or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep working on goals between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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