Tanya Smith, LPC

Tanya Smith is an LPC with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is warm and direct while staying focused on solutions.

She offers straightforward tools for anger, low self-esteem, grief, and intimacy-related struggles. Tanya also supports people facing parenting pressures, career changes, bipolar mood challenges, and burnout from compassion fatigue. She works with issues related to adoption, attachment, autism, chronic illness, and body image as well.

Tanya draws from several evidence-informed approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based methods, Client-Centered work, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. In sessions she mixes skills practice with reflective conversations so people leave with clear steps to try between meetings.

Her practice aims to be affirming of LGBT identities and responsive to cultural background. Tanya emphasizes learning communication skills and building habits that steady mood and lower reactivity. She checks in about goals and adjusts methods to match each person's needs.

Clients can expect focused sessions that balance empathy with practical coaching. Tanya helps break problems into manageable pieces and supports people as they try new ways of coping and relating.

Approaches that translate well to online care

CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors. It teaches concrete skills for anxiety, depression, and stress that people can practice between sessions. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. It can make coping with change, grief, and chronic stress more manageable. Attachment-Based work looks at how early relationships shape current connections and communication; it helps people build more secure ways of relating.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying approaches, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than committing to one path from the start.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet the same goals you would in person. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a camera feels uncomfortable. Live chat and text-based messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone needs a shorter way to touch base between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules.