About Tyania
Tyania McConnell is a licensed clinical social worker with a decade of experience in psychotherapy. She emphasizes the strengths each person brings and treats clients as experts in their own lives. Tyania aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and supported.
She holds clinical social work credentials in Georgia and Michigan and has ten years of practice experience. Her work often focuses on stress and anxiety, grief and loss, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions.
Background and approach
She also addresses workplace and career concerns, compassion fatigue, and challenges related to trauma and abuse. Tyania uses a person-focused style in sessions. She listens for what matters most and helps people find practical ways to respond to daily stressors.
Conversations are direct and respectful, with an eye toward small, achievable changes that build confidence over time. Her toolbox includes cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts, dialectical skills for emotion regulation, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity. She blends these with client-centered and existential perspectives to help people make meaning and set goals that fit their values.
People who contact her usually want a therapist who is calm, pragmatic, and attuned to cultural experience. Tyania offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to suit different schedules. She supports clients through practical problem solving while also exploring deeper concerns about purpose and identity.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on treating the person with respect and curiosity. The therapist follows the client's lead, listens closely, and helps people clarify what they want from therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact; it teaches clear skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior and often helps with anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of working together. The therapist will talk with each client about their goals and preferences and adjust methods as needed. That collaborative process makes it easier to try different strategies and decide what fits best for managing stress, grief, or life transitions.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation, while phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief touches, day-to-day coaching, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, South Carolina, Michigan, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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