About Tanya
Tanya Wood is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Texas who uses a person-centered approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and depression. She focuses on practical steps clients can try between sessions and keeps language simple and direct so parents and busy adults can follow along. Her style is warm and straightforward.
She listens first, then helps people set short-term goals. Sessions often include coping skills, emotion regulation strategies, and problem-solving that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Tanya also blends techniques from cognitive behavioral and trauma-focused approaches when they help meet a client's goals. Over seven years of practice have exposed her to many life changes people face. She has worked with issues like relationship strain, parenting stress, career transitions, and loss.
She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care concerns, and challenges tied to aging. Tanya uses tools from solution-focused work to help people identify practical next steps. She draws on dialectical behavior therapy ideas for managing strong emotions and on cognitive behavioral tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts.
These approaches are adapted to each person's pace and needs. She offers services in English and Spanish and welcomes international clients. Tanya aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can build skills, make clearer decisions, and recover from painful experiences.
The focus is on realistic change that fits everyday life.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Tanya combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people understand thoughts and try small behavior changes. Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening and making the work feel collaborative, which helps people clarify goals and feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and provides concrete tools to challenge unhelpful thinking patterns.She also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills when strong emotions get in the way of daily life. Each plan is shaped together: the therapist and client decide which approach or mix of approaches fits the person’s needs, goals, and preferences so the work feels relevant and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for a fuller session similar to in-person meetings. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, progress updates, and for people who need flexible ways to communicate between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish