About Tanya
Tanya D Mizell is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 23 years of clinical experience in Michigan. She holds a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and combines that education with long-term practice supporting people facing complex mental health challenges. Tanya uses practical, straightforward methods in sessions and focuses on helping people manage symptoms and make real changes.
Her background includes work with adults and adolescents who face trauma, substance-related struggles, and co-occurring conditions.
How Tanya works
She has experience supporting people with neurodevelopmental differences, grief, bipolar disorder, depression, and stress-related concerns. Tanya's training and career path include roles that addressed difficult life events such as abandonment, displacement, and trauma exposure. Tanya favors client-centered care and uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She also uses motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change and narrative and solution-focused approaches to help people reframe problems and set practical goals. Sessions are aimed at clear, achievable steps rather than abstract theory. People who choose Tanya often want a direct, collaborative style.
She works alongside clients to set goals and picks methods that fit the person's situation and preferences. The approach is flexible and practical, with attention to real-life barriers and supports. Tanya has a strong interest in forensic and career-related concerns, and she continues professional study while pursuing a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision with a specialization in Addictions Counseling.
Her practice emphasizes steady, experienced support for people navigating complicated mental health and life challenges.
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What Tanya works with
The areas below are the ones Tanya selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approach and online therapy that fit your life
Tanya commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship to support growth. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can ease anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people clarify their goals and strengthen their willingness to change. That approach is useful when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps. Tanya aims to match methods to each person's needs, and she works collaboratively to decide what will help most based on goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video calls are helpful for more in-depth work that benefits from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can fit into a break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when someone prefers written conversation. These options are intended to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent with daily life.
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