About Tanya
Tanya Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are worn down by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, anger, and relationship pain. Tanya keeps conversations straightforward and steady so a worried parent can follow along easily.
Her work blends body-focused practice with practical talk therapy. She pays attention to how feelings show up in the body and in daily routines. Sessions often include breathing, grounding, and simple awareness exercises alongside problem-solving and communication skills.
Background and approach
Tanya uses methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take values-driven action. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to help clients understand patterns in relationships and rebuild trust with themselves and others. The style in the room is warm and direct.
Tanya aims to make goals small and doable, so change feels possible in real life. She supports clients dealing with parenting stress, identity questions, grief, chronic illness, ADHD, and career strain. Work begins by identifying one or two priority problems and trying simple tools right away.
Over time Tanya helps people build routines that reduce reactivity and increase calm. She explains steps plainly and checks in about what is working and what needs to change.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Tanya commonly uses Somatic Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her online work. Somatic Therapy focuses on how emotions show up in the body and uses breathing and grounding to reduce tension and reactivity. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts, clarify what matters to them, and take small actions that match their values.She also draws on Attachment-Based ideas to help clients understand patterns in relationships and rebuild more supported ways of connecting. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Tanya will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and try techniques that fit their life and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. These options allow people to meet from home, keep regular routines, and use shorter check-ins when that fits. The variety of formats makes it easier to practice body-awareness and thought-work between sessions and to stay consistent during life changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- 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