About Tanya
Tanya Underwood is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Arizona with 16 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, and the ripple effects of trauma. Tanya takes a respectful, down-to-earth approach and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for anyone reaching out.
She meets each person where they are and shapes sessions around individual needs. Conversations focus on what matters most right now, whether that's managing panic, coping with loss, or changing patterns that cause pain.
Background and approach
Practical skills and real-world strategies are paired with time to understand underlying feelings and relationships. Tanya uses methods drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas and acceptance-based practices to help people change unhelpful thoughts and stay committed to meaningful actions. She also brings attachment-informed perspectives to explore how early relationships affect current patterns.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit the client's goals. Over 16 years she has supported people through addiction struggles, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, grief, and career strain. She also addresses issues like ADHD, body image, eating and sleeping problems, and caregiver stress.
Work can include coaching elements when clients want practical next steps. Tanya offers sessions in English and provides a range of online formats. She focuses on respectful, sensitive care and adjusts the plan as needs change.
If you feel unsure, she encourages taking the next small step toward help.
How Tanya’s Approach Translates to Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take steps toward what matters most. This approach often helps with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change patterns that fuel problems like panic, depression, or sleep difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how past relationship experiences shape current reactions and connection patterns, which can be useful for intimacy, communication, and trust issues.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Tanya will work with each person to match techniques to their goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities. Sessions can mix skill practice, reflective conversation, and coaching-style planning depending on what the client needs at the time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing care between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on meaningful progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- 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)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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