About Tanya
Tanya Weekes is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and trauma. She practices in New York and focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for common struggles like panic attacks, social anxiety, and low self-esteem. Tanya centers her work on the person in front of her and starts with real concerns.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide conversations and build skills. Sessions aim to calm overwhelming feelings, improve coping with panic or social fear, and strengthen confidence over time.
Background and approach
The work often includes learning simple tools to reduce stress in daily life. Tanya pays attention to each person’s background and culture. She creates a warm, non-judgmental space where clients can say what’s on their mind and try out new ways of handling problems.
That approach supports anyone facing depression, trauma, or relationship stress in their life. Her style is collaborative and practical. She helps people set clear goals and checks in about what’s working.
Many sessions focus on short-term skills alongside deeper personal work when needed. People who want straightforward guidance for anxiety, panic, or women’s concerns often find her approach useful. She offers several online formats and works in English.
The emphasis is on steady progress and usable tools that fit into everyday life.
Approaches for Anxiety and Online Care
Evidence-based techniques focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building coping skills. Cognitive approaches help identify and reframe anxious thoughts so they cause less distress; these methods are often used for panic disorder and social anxiety to reduce avoidance and improve daily functioning. Skill-based strategies teach breathing, grounding, and short behavioral experiments to manage panic attacks and sudden spikes in anxiety.Trauma-informed methods focus on stabilizing symptoms and increasing a sense of safety in day-to-day life. This work tends to start with pacing and skill building so people can tolerate strong feelings and then gradually address painful memories when they feel ready. Both cognitive and trauma-informed approaches aim to give practical tools people can use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through a client’s goals, preferences, and current challenges and then try methods that fit those needs. Sessions may shift over time toward skills training or deeper processing depending on progress and comfort.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow conversational depth and visual connection, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult, and live chat or text messaging suit brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, childcare, or travel schedules while keeping care consistent.
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- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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