About Tanya
Tanya McClung is a licensed counselor practicing in West Virginia. She holds the credential LCMHC and the credential LCPC and has been working as a counselor for 10 years. Tanya focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and the everyday problems that follow.
She uses straightforward, talk-based work to address mood, self-esteem, and relationship struggles. Sessions often focus on recognizing unhelpful thoughts and building small practical skills to cope better day to day.
Background and approach
Tanya draws on approaches that center the person and that teach specific behavioral and emotional skills. Clients come to her for help with trauma and abuse, grief, parenting stress, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, attachment questions, and difficulties rooted in family of origin.
Conversations aim to connect current problems to patterns that started earlier in life while keeping focus on what can change now. Tanya’s method blends reflective listening with tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches. She also incorporates existential and Jungian ideas when exploring meaning, identity, and long-standing patterns.
This mix lets her move between immediate symptom relief and deeper personal work. Practical details are handled plainly. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Tanya works in English and practices from West Virginia.
Approach-driven care offered online
Tanya often uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and helping people find their own answers; it helps when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental space to talk through issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy targets thought and behavior patterns with practical exercises and is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood problems.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques when emotional regulation and strong mood swings are a concern. DBT-style skills teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can ease intense reactions and improve daily functioning. These approaches are used to address both immediate symptoms and longer-standing patterns together.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Tanya will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. She collaborates to adjust methods over time so sessions match changing needs and practical circumstances.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for a fuller face-to-face conversation; phone works when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can fit quick check-ins, notes between sessions, or times when typing feels easier. These options make scheduling more flexible and allow therapy to fit into busy routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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