About Tawnee
Tawnee Russell is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with twenty years of clinical experience. She supports people who are dealing with stress and anxiety and those struggling with low self-esteem or mood changes. Tawnee helps with relationship and family concerns and talks through communication problems, guilt, and shame in straightforward ways.
Her style is warm and practical. She listens first, then offers tools and strategies a person can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear steps for managing overwhelming feelings and improving everyday interactions. Tawnee uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people make concrete changes. She teaches coping skills for anxiety and ways to rebuild trust and connection after conflict.
The work often includes role practice for communication and small behavior changes that add up over time. In California, she has spent two decades helping people navigate mood disorders and family problems. Her LMFT credential stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and reflects that professional designation.
People who come to her can expect a collaborative process. Conversations are respectful and goal oriented. Tawnee helps people set realistic goals and checks progress as they go.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Two evidence-based techniques commonly used involve learning practical coping skills and improving interaction patterns. One approach focuses on skill building for anxiety and mood symptoms, teaching breathing, grounding, and thought-management exercises that reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. Another approach concentrates on communication and relationship skills, using guided practice to change how people ask for needs and respond to conflict so interactions become less reactive.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with a person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try techniques that fit. Clients and the therapist decide together whether to keep an approach or try something different based on how the work is progressing.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video sessions allow visual connection for deeper interaction, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing brief contact between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapeutic work into a busy life and maintain steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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