About Tanya
Tanya Smith is an LPC with 15 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She creates a calm, affirming space where people can talk about hard things and start to feel more steady. Her approach is warm and direct, and she focuses on practical steps that fit everyday life.
She uses a mix of psychological approaches to match what each person needs. That can include strategies to change unhelpful thinking, skills for managing strong emotions, and work aimed at strengthening close relationships.
Background and approach
She helps people build clearer communication and healthier boundaries. Tanya pays attention to how life experience and identity shape emotional challenges. She includes cultural awareness in sessions and respects each person's background.
This helps shape goals and the tools she offers. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused. Clients can expect to learn coping skills, practice new ways of responding to stress, and set small, achievable steps toward their goals.
Tanya also supports people dealing with parenting stress, career pressures, grief, and compassion fatigue. Her style balances empathy with straightforward feedback. She aims to help people recognize their strengths while addressing problems like anger, low self-esteem, addiction of behaviors, and the ongoing effects of early attachment wounds.
Time in therapy is used to make tangible changes that feel relevant to daily life.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and to take steps toward what matters. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, and it is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills that can reduce overwhelm and improve interactions with others.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences, and together they will pick or blend methods that fit. This collaborative process helps ensure sessions stay focused and useful as needs change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or being on camera is a problem. Live chat and text messaging can provide quick check-ins, brief coaching, and skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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