About Tanea
Tanea Couther is a licensed clinician in Maryland with 11 years of professional experience. She holds an MD and is an LCPC. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma-related concerns.
Her approach centers on respectful, sensitive care. She aims to adapt conversations and plans to match each person’s needs. She emphasizes practical steps that can be used between sessions to ease daily strain.
In sessions she listens closely and helps identify patterns that make problems harder to manage.
Background and approach
She uses techniques drawn from client-centered work and cognitive-behavioral tools to name unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She may also draw on mindfulness skills to reduce intense emotional reactions. Tanea supports people dealing with relationship troubles, communication problems, and issues around trust and attachment.
She also helps those coping with life changes, feelings of emptiness, guilt, shame, and compassion fatigue. Her work includes addressing panic, mood shifts, and post-traumatic stress symptoms. She presents treatment options in plain language and invites collaboration on goals.
The aim is to find approaches that fit each person’s life and values. People who want a clear plan and steady support often find this style helpful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy puts your experience at the center of the work. The therapist listens closely, reflects what matters to you, and helps shape goals that fit your life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. These two approaches together provide both understanding and practical tools for everyday problems such as panic, relationship conflict, or mood swings.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will talk with you about goals and preferences and then collaborate on which methods to try. That plan can change as progress is made, and adjustments are based on what helps you feel more in control and less overwhelmed.
Online therapy offers several convenient ways to connect. Video calls let you have a session that feels most like an in-person visit. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in during a busy day or to use shorter, more frequent touchpoints. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while maintaining regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English