About Tanika
Tanika Black is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 14 years of experience. She practices from Louisiana and brings a calm, direct presence to sessions. Her work focuses on common but painful problems like anxiety, depression, and phobias.
She also supports people dealing with grief, stress, and identity concerns. Tanika uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques to help people manage symptoms and build skills. She listens for what matters most to each person and helps set small, practical goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on learning tools that can be used between meetings, such as coping strategies for panic or steps to handle anger. Her background includes work across mood disorders, trauma, and addiction-related concerns. That experience guides how she adapts pacing and interventions to each person’s needs.
She pays attention to how life changes, caregiving roles, and discrimination can affect mental health. Tanika aims to make therapy feel manageable. Conversations are direct and nonjudgmental.
Parents and individuals often find the structure helpful when they’re juggling many responsibilities. She offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on the therapist’s availability.
Costs vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Tanika uses well-established, evidence-based techniques to guide sessions. One approach focuses on learning practical coping skills for anxiety and panic - techniques include breathing and grounding exercises and gradual exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. Another approach targets mood and repetitive negative thinking through problem-solving and behavioral changes to improve day-to-day functioning and energy levels.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust when needed. This shared planning helps make sure the work fits the person’s concerns and pace rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when more connection helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for frequent check-ins, quick skill reminders, or when writing feels clearer than speaking. These options make it easier to keep regular momentum and to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English
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