About Tanya
Dr. Tanya Harrell uses a compassionate, person-centered style to help people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and relationship challenges. She blends practical tools with a focus on each person's strengths.
Dr. Harrell is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Louisiana with seven years of experience. She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful.
Sessions focus on what matters to the client and on skills that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
She often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to address thoughts and behaviors, and draws on attachment-informed work to look at how relationships shape feelings and reactions. Tanya has worked with people who have lived through domestic violence, sexual trauma, and other forms of abuse.
She has also provided counseling to adults, children, and to homeless families, which shaped her practical, down-to-earth approach to care. Those experiences inform how she listens and responds in sessions. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including parenting stress, addiction, body image and eating issues, mood disorders like depression and bipolar, and attention difficulties such as ADHD.
She also helps people navigate life changes, career stress, caregiving strain, and compassion fatigue. In the therapy room she focuses on building a strong working relationship, understanding problems from the client's point of view, and helping people connect with their values and strengths. The pace and techniques are adjusted to each person's needs and goals.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small, value-driven steps. It can help when someone feels stuck, overwhelmed by thoughts, or unsure how to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches specific skills to change patterns that cause distress. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how earlier relationships shape current connections and emotional responses, helping people improve how they relate to others and regulate emotion.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques feel most helpful and realistic for day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face-to-face when schedules allow. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a work break. Chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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 of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English