About Tanya
Tanya DesArmo is a Wisconsin-based licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, and life changes. She brings a calm, steady presence and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Tanya emphasizes strengths and works with each person to set realistic, useful goals for change.
She draws on 16 years of experience supporting people through family problems, trauma and abuse, and challenges tied to adoption and foster care.
Background and approach
Tanya also helps with parenting stress, substance concerns, sleep problems, mood struggles like depression and bipolar symptoms, and identity-related issues including LGBT concerns. In sessions she listens first and uses what the client already knows about their life. She mixes client-centered conversation with tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches to help people reframe unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies are used when clients want clear, step-by-step plans to reach goals. Tanya aims to reduce overwhelm by breaking problems into small, manageable steps. She supports work on self-esteem, coping skills, and healthier routines for sleep and stress.
Practical ideas and short-term tasks are typical parts of her work. People who prefer a straightforward, collaborative approach often find this style helpful. Tanya encourages clients to notice small gains and build on them over time.
Her goal is to make change feel possible and sustainable.
How Tanya’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and strengths, with the therapist listening closely and following what the client finds most important. This approach helps people who want an empathetic, collaborative space to talk and make decisions about next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT sessions offer practical exercises and homework to test new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, sleep issues, and mood concerns.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and manage strong emotions. These short practices are easy to try during a video call or as daily exercises between sessions.
Choosing the right method is a team effort. The therapist will work with the client to identify goals and try approaches that match those goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video for face-to-face conversation, phone for when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat for quick check-ins, and text messaging for brief updates or reminders. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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