About Tanya
Tanya Smith is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. She welcomes conversations about self-esteem, anger, grief, intimacy issues, parenting challenges, career concerns, and neurodiverse needs like ADHD and autism. Her focus also includes needs tied to adoption, abandonment, chronic illness, caregiver strain, and compassion fatigue.
Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions are practical and geared toward small, usable changes.
Background and approach
Tanya guides clients through skills for handling strong emotions and improving communication. She emphasizes strengths people already have and builds from there. Tanya uses a mix of approaches depending on what an individual needs.
She blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive tools and attachment-focused work. Dialectical and client-centered methods also shape how she helps people manage intense feelings and improve relationships. She aims to make therapy collaborative.
Tanya listens closely, offers clear feedback, and helps set realistic goals. Together with each person she creates steps for coping with transitions, managing symptoms, and making progress toward their priorities. Practicing in South Carolina as an LPC - licensed professional counselor - she brings both experience and practical focus to sessions.
People looking for flexible online options can choose video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit their routines.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and values-based action. It helps clients move toward what matters even when unpleasant feelings appear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. These approaches are useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and managing strong emotions.Tanya treats the choice of approach as a team effort. She listens to each person's goals and preferences, explains options, and tries methods that make sense for the situation. Over time she checks in and adjusts techniques so the work stays relevant and usable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face when more connection helps. Phone sessions are handy when bandwidth is limited or during a short break at work. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to check in between sessions, keep momentum on skill practice, and fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- 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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English