About Tanya
Tanya Smith is an LPC with 15 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and ADHD. She creates a calm, respectful space where people can talk about what feels hard. Her approach aims to make therapy practical and understandable for everyday life.
She uses straightforward techniques that help clients notice patterns and try new ways of responding. Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings, such as strategies for managing strong emotions and improving communication.
Background and approach
Tanya prefers clear goals and small steps that add up over time. Tanya combines several approaches so care matches each person's needs. That can include exploring how relationships and attachment shape current struggles, practicing present-focused skills from acceptance-oriented work, or using cognitive strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts.
She explains each method and how it might help before trying it. She pays attention to identity and life context, and she aims to be affirming of LGBT clients. Tanya also supports people facing grief, caregiving stress, chronic illness, career concerns, and parenting challenges.
Her style is warm, direct, and collaborative, with an emphasis on building real-life skills. People who choose her often want practical tools and clear next steps. Tanya helps create plans that fit daily routines and personal values.
She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take actions that match their values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when the goal is a more meaningful life rather than symptom elimination. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which often helps with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early and current relationships affect feelings and behavior, and it can help with intimacy issues, relationship struggles, and patterns rooted in attachment history.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Tanya will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then try methods that match those priorities. She checks in and adjusts the plan based on how clients respond, so therapy evolves with the person's needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility and a range of ways to connect. Video calls let people work face to face when longer conversations are needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and changing routines.
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What this therapist 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
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