Tanay Hudson, LCSW

Tanay Hudson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York who uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and relationship strains. She brings 11 years of experience to sessions and focuses on clear, practical tools that people can use between meetings.

She keeps conversations straightforward and goal-oriented. Sessions often begin by identifying upsetting thoughts and unhelpful patterns. From there she works with clients to test those thoughts and try new ways of responding that reduce distress and improve daily functioning.

Tanay pays attention to the whole situation around a concern. That can include career pressures, parenting stress, caregiving demands, grief, and the impact of past trauma. She also addresses issues like body image, guilt and shame, panic attacks, seasonal mood shifts, and social anxiety.

Her approach mixes active skill-building with space to talk through painful memories or current struggles. She teaches breathing and grounding strategies for intense moments, and cognitive techniques to shift perspectives over time. She also supports people coping with big life changes or compassion fatigue from caregiving roles.

In sessions she aims to make goals concrete and measurable. People leave with simple practices to try and a shared plan for next steps. Starting therapy is described as a courageous move, and she helps people take it at a steady, manageable pace.

How CBT and Online Sessions Work Together

Tanay uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on approach that helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and mood-related concerns by teaching step-by-step skills to change reactions and reduce distress.

She focuses on practical exercises that can be practiced between meetings, such as thought records, behavioral experiments, and grounding techniques for intense moments. These tools translate well to online formats because they are activity-based and can be reviewed together during a session.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. Together they decide whether CBT techniques should be the main focus or combined with other supportive strategies to meet the client's needs.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video allows face-to-face conversation and screen sharing of worksheets, phone sessions can be a simple check-in without bandwidth demands, and chat or messaging suits quick reflections or shorter check-ins between appointments. These options give flexibility for work breaks, caregiving schedules, or when someone needs a shorter format.