About Tanya
Tanya Smith is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She creates a calm, affirming space where clients can talk through intense feelings and learn practical ways to cope. Parents and adults facing life changes or career stress can find straightforward support and tools here.
Tanya uses simple, action-oriented methods so people leave sessions with something to try.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that keep problems going and helps clients build new habits that fit daily life. Sessions focus on real moments - what someone struggles with at work, at home, or in relationships - and on small steps that make a difference. <brHer work includes addressing grief, intimacy-related challenges, anger, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Tanya also supports people dealing with attachment issues, adoption and foster care histories, blended family dynamics, and chronic illness or caregiving stress. She offers care that recognizes identity and life experience, including LGBT concerns. Clinical tools she draws on include acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotion-focused work, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches.
She pairs these with a client-centered attitude that treats clients as the experts on their lives. That mix helps people manage symptoms and clarify values. Tanya practices in South Carolina and holds an SC LPC credential.
Sessions are offered in English and include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client’s timing.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting those experiences dictate actions. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful steps toward them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking patterns and build coping skills for challenges like panic, phobias, and low mood.
Tanya treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with clients about their goals, try methods that fit their style, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative stance makes it easier to move from insight to real change.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face when that matters, phone sessions can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth needs, and live chat or text-based messaging support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between full sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and health needs while keeping momentum between visits.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- 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
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