About Tonia
Tonia Guzman is a licensed clinician in Maryland who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She offers a calm, respectful presence and focuses on the practical steps a person can take to feel steadier. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps into therapy easier for someone who is worried or uncertain.
With 12 years of experience and dual credentials as MD and Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical, she brings medical knowledge and clinical practice together.
Background and approach
She works with issues such as grief and loss, low self-esteem, depression, and the strain that comes with life changes. Her background also includes supporting people with trauma and abuse, panic attacks, and ADHD-related concerns. Tonia adapts conversations and plans to fit each person.
She uses methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral ideas, client-centered listening, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. That means sessions often mix talking through difficult feelings, practicing new ways of responding, and setting small, doable goals. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, communication problems, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to chronic illness or body image.
Cultural factors and multicultural concerns are part of her work when they matter to the person in front of her. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To start, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions based on therapist availability.
How Tonia’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people accept difficult thoughts while focusing on what matters to them. It often involves noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values, useful for anxiety, panic, or life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It breaks problems into manageable parts and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, or panic symptoms through new habits and exercises.
Client-Centered Therapy relies on listening without judgment and following the person’s lead. That approach helps people feel understood and build confidence to try new ways of coping.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then tailor methods to fit. That collaboration continues as goals change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video is useful for in-depth work and face-to-face interaction, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone share thoughts in writing between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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