About Tanya
Tanya McClung is a licensed counselor in West Virginia who blends practical talk therapy with skills-based approaches. She brings 10 years of professional counseling experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, and parenting concerns. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to make sessions feel respectful and person-focused.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) are part of her toolkit for changing unhelpful thinking and building coping skills.
Background and approach
These approaches are often used together to address mood instability, negative self-talk, and anxiety. Tanya pays attention to how past relationships affect current feelings. She helps people look at family of origin issues, attachment struggles, and experiences around abandonment or adoption that still matter today.
She also brings awareness to chronic illness, disability, and aging as factors that shape emotional life. Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented. Tanya helps people identify what’s causing their distress and then works on practical steps to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
She also draws on existential and Jungian ideas when questions of meaning or identity come up. She offers therapy through video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to availability.
Approaches that translate to online care
Tanya draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, listening-focused space where people set the pace and topics of conversation. This approach helps when someone needs empathy, validation, and help clarifying personal goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used for identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT sessions often include practical exercises, homework, and step-by-step plans to reduce anxiety, manage depression, or address phobias. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can be helpful for mood instability and intense reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tanya will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort with different techniques. She adjusts pacing and tools based on feedback and progress so therapy feels relevant and doable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided skill practice. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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