About Tanya
Tanya Underwood is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship struggles, and trauma. She works with adults who want practical tools to feel steadier day to day and to improve how they relate to others. She brings 16 years of clinical experience in Arizona to each session.
Tanya approaches therapy with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She listens first, then tailors conversations and plans to fit a person's needs and goals.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on managing overwhelming emotions and building routines that support sleep, eating, and overall coping. Tanya uses straightforward techniques that people can practice between appointments to reduce anxiety and cravings or to calm intense reactions. Tanya also helps people repair and strengthen relationships by improving communication, setting boundaries, and addressing attachment concerns.
She offers support for grief, life changes, parenting strain, career stress, and self-esteem challenges. When phobias or specific fears get in the way of daily life, she applies practical strategies to lessen avoidance and increase functioning. Sessions aim to be collaborative and focused on measurable steps forward.
Therapy is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, so people can choose the format that fits their schedule and needs.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes clarifying personal values and taking small, workable steps toward them. It helps when anxiety, avoidance, or uncertainty stop someone from doing what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to change behavior and mood. CBT is useful for anxiety, phobias, and depression because it teaches specific skills to use between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to pick techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning means methods can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps when visual cues and face-to-face conversation are useful. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging can support shorter check-ins, quick skill reminders, or ongoing coaching between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- 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)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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