About Tanya
Dr. Tanya Harrell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who combines practical strategies with a person-centered outlook. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, relationship struggles, and other life changes.
Her approach aims to meet people where they are and help them take the next step. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques to help clients clarify values and take purposeful action.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas inform work around relationships and patterns that began in early life. Dr. Harrell has seven years of counseling experience in Louisiana.
Her background includes supporting people affected by trauma, domestic violence, and housing instability. That work shaped a straightforward, empathetic style that centers on respect and practical problem solving. In sessions she listens first and tailors plans to each person’s needs.
People who come to her may work on sleep and eating habits, parenting stress, addiction concerns, mood challenges like depression or bipolar symptoms, or issues such as ADHD and body image. She offers talk-based work that blends goal-focused exercises with space to process strong emotions.
Her aim is to help clients build skills, reconnect with what matters, and make manageable changes over time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck on them, clarify what matters most, and take small steps toward those values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors through practical exercises and homework. It often suits concerns like mood problems, sleep and eating issues, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connection and closeness; it can help people understand recurring relationship dynamics and work toward healthier ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Early sessions focus on understanding what matters to the client and trying approaches together to see what fits best.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, focused updates. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent when schedules are busy or travel gets in the way.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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 of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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