About Tanya
Tanya D Mizell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan with 23 years of clinical experience. She brings a long history of work with adults and adolescents facing complex emotional and behavioral challenges. Tanya focuses on practical help for everyday problems like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and challenges related to trauma and relationship struggles.
She uses clear, straightforward methods in sessions and centers conversations on each person's goals.
Background and approach
Tanya often draws on client-centered work to build trust and on cognitive behavioral strategies to change thinking and behavior patterns. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used to help people find next steps when they feel stuck. Her background includes work with people facing neurodevelopmental conditions, co-occurring concerns, and severe mental health issues.
Tanya has experience supporting those coping with long-term change, caregiving stress, and recovery from abusive or traumatic events. She also assists people navigating career questions, parenting stress, body image, and identity issues. Sessions are aimed at practical problem solving and clearer daily routines.
Tanya helps clients set achievable goals, test new coping skills, and track small gains over time. Conversations are collaborative and paced to what each person can manage. People who want straightforward, goal-oriented support often find this approach helpful.
Tanya combines experience with common-sense strategies to help clients move toward clearer thinking and steadier days.
How Tanya’s approaches translate to online care
Tanya blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools and motivational interviewing to help people reach clear goals. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s priorities so sessions reflect their pace and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Motivational interviewing supports people who feel stuck by exploring their own motivations and encouraging small, doable steps toward change.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Tanya will talk with each person about their needs and preferences and then try methods that fit those goals. The plan can change as progress is made and new challenges appear, keeping the work collaborative and practical.
Online formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation similar to an office visit, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can serve as shorter check-ins, quick problem-solving, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule appointments, maintain momentum, and use therapy in ways that match day-to-day routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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