About TaBoya
TaBoya Holman is a licensed professional counselor in Tennessee who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable. TaBoya frames clients as the experts in their own lives and offers steady support while people work toward clearer goals.
Her style centers on listening closely and building practical skills. She uses methods from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, and mindfulness to address difficult thoughts and reactions.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple exercises, real-world homework, and calm pacing so people can practice between meetings. TaBoya brings 15 years of experience to her practice in Tennessee. That background includes work with trauma, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, and relationship communication problems.
She also helps people navigate feelings of abandonment, emptiness, and challenges after separation. In a typical meeting she checks in on mood and recent challenges, then helps prioritize what to try that week. She uses feedback to adjust plans and keeps the focus on steps that fit each person’s life and schedule.
The aim is clearer coping skills and steadier day-to-day functioning. TaBoya works in English and offers sessions in several formats, including video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. She invites people to start with a short assessment so together they can choose practical goals and a pace that feels right.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
TaBoya commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on active listening and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and understood; it helps when someone needs steady, nonjudgmental support. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors together and offers practical tools for reducing anxiety, managing mood, and changing unhelpful patterns.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. DBT-style skills teach concrete practices for calming intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and handling crisis moments without making things worse. Choosing the right mix of approaches is collaborative - the therapist asks about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then adapts methods to fit each person.
Online sessions can use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching exercises, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets someone send updates or get brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or health demands while focusing on practical skill-building and steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English