About Tana
Tana Marie Ruud Tennent is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Arizona with 26 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and navigating life changes. Her style is direct and encouraging, aimed at helping people take manageable steps forward.
She treats motivation and confidence as skills that can be rebuilt rather than fixed traits. In sessions she listens for a person’s strengths and uses those as the starting point for change.
Background and approach
Tana believes the client is the expert in their own life, and she offers structure and support to help people make choices that fit their goals. Her work often focuses on real-world coping strategies. That can mean simplifying overwhelming tasks, practicing new ways to talk about needs, or building a routine that steadies mood.
She also helps people tackle communication problems that make relationships and daily life harder. Tana aims to make the first steps feel achievable. She talks through immediate priorities and builds a plan that can be adjusted over time.
The approach is collaborative, with goals set together and reviewed as progress happens. Over decades of practice she has seen many people move through difficult seasons. Her focus remains practical support and steady guidance as clients work toward clearer thinking and more confident action.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many clients benefit from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and problem solving. One approach emphasizes building practical coping skills to manage stress and anxiety, teaching short exercises and routines you can use day to day. Another approach centers on boosting self-esteem and confidence through step-by-step behavioral changes and communication practice to improve how you express needs and set boundaries.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify priorities, try techniques that fit their goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This keeps sessions focused on what helps most for the individual situation.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face interaction and skill practice, phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules.
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- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English