About Tanya
Tanya D Mizell is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 23 years of clinical experience to her work in Michigan. She focuses on practical support for people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Tanya aims to make therapy straightforward and focused on everyday change.
Clients can expect a conversational style that centers their goals. Sessions emphasize building skills, clarifying values, and finding small steps that fit real life.
Background and approach
She uses tools to address mood, stress, and coping with big life transitions. Her background includes extended work with people who have complex, co-occurring issues and with those impacted by trauma. Tanya also has experience supporting people with neurodevelopmental differences and caregiver stress.
That experience shapes a practical approach that values clear communication and problem solving. In sessions she blends collaborative listening with action-oriented techniques. This means both talking through experiences and trying concrete strategies between meetings.
She often uses problem-focused planning, gentle questioning to uncover patterns, and goal-setting that can be adjusted over time. Tanya writes plainly and checks in about progress so clients know what is working. She encourages people to bring what matters most to the room, whether that is parenting strain, work stress, body image, or past trauma.
Her work aims to help people feel steadier and more able to manage daily demands.
How Tanya’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead to build trust and clarify goals; this helps with issues like depression, low self-esteem, and relationship concerns by prioritizing what matters most to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns. Motivational Interviewing uses focused, respectful questions to strengthen motivation for change and can be useful for substance concerns, career shifts, or building new habits.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and try methods that feel right. If something isn't working, adjustments are made together so the plan fits the person's life and pace.
Online formats offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let clients send shorter updates between sessions or use written check-ins when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English