About Tawana
Tawana Cummings is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of practice in Texas. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, self-esteem, and major life changes. Her approach is practical and person-focused, aiming to make therapy feel useful from the first session.
She draws on client-centered work to build a trusting space where clients lead the pace and topics. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to notice and change unhelpful thought patterns that feed anxiety and low mood.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills offer concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving regulation. Tawana also uses motivational interviewing to support people who feel stuck or uncertain about change. Solution-focused techniques help set achievable goals and track small wins between sessions.
Together these methods are chosen to match what each person needs and prefers. Her experience includes supporting people through caregiving stress, chronic illness, bereavement, fertility concerns, communication problems, and the strain that follows divorce or major loss. She aims to help people develop clearer coping plans and steadier day-to-day routines.
Tawana explains steps plainly and helps clients practice new skills outside sessions. Conversations tend to be collaborative and down-to-earth, focused on what will make life more manageable. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and practical support while people work toward their goals.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and tailoring sessions to what matters most to the person. This approach helps people feel heard and helps the therapist shape goals that match real life concerns, like anxiety or changes after loss.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety or low mood going. In sessions clients learn practical exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking and acting, which often reduces worry and improves daily functioning.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. These concrete tools are useful for people who need methods to soothe intense stress and handle conflict more calmly.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. This collaborative process aims to match strategies to the client’s needs and preferences rather than using a single method.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and skill practice, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps track progress between sessions. These options make it easier to keep up with therapy across varied schedules and daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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