About Tanya
Tanya Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, and supports those facing addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and changes like grief or parenting challenges. Tanya uses clear, straightforward methods and aims to make sessions practical and easy to follow.
Her approach is collaborative and client-centered. She listens first, then helps people set small, workable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and acceptance and commitment strategies to build values-driven action. Tanya also draws on emotionally focused techniques to address closeness and connection issues. She uses existential ideas when people are wrestling with meaning, loss, or major life shifts.
Mindfulness practices are woven in to help with stress and impulsive reactions. Over the past decade she has worked in settings that included psychotherapy, case management, and substance abuse treatment. That range gives her experience with grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, eating and body image concerns, and family and parenting stress.
She aims to tailor sessions to each person’s goals and daily life. Tanya speaks English and practices across Florida. Her style is respectful and nonjudgmental, and she invites people to try approaches that fit their needs.
She encourages starting with a short assessment to map out priorities and next steps.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Tanya commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood.She also uses client-centered techniques to build a supportive, respectful relationship. That means sessions start with listening to what matters most to the person and then shaping goals together. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work; the therapist will collaborate with clients to try options and adjust methods based on goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations for skills practice. Phone can fit into a busy day or when lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text messaging are practical for shorter check-ins, coping tools between sessions, or when writing helps process thoughts. These options make scheduling and follow-up more flexible for varied routines and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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