About Tanya
Tanya (Kai) Qualls is a licensed professional counselor with 12 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self‑esteem, depression, grief, and major life changes. Tanya aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through painful experiences and start to feel steadier.
Tanya listens with curiosity and helps people notice what matters most to them. She encourages small, practical steps that build confidence over time.
How Tanya works
Her approach blends evidence-based exercises and thoughtful listening so sessions feel grounded and straightforward. She offers tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help challenge unhelpful thoughts. Mindfulness practices are used to bring attention back to the present and reduce reactivity.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports clarifying values and taking actions that match those values. Tanya also uses client-centered and dialectical behavior therapy ideas when helpful, giving people space to be heard while teaching coping skills. She tailors work to each person’s needs instead of using one fixed plan.
With experience addressing trauma, relationship concerns, parenting stress, identity questions, compassion fatigue, and family of origin issues, she supports people through hard transitions. Tanya works with matters such as abandonment, commitment or control struggles, dissociation, and feelings of isolation. Sessions are offered in English and held remotely in Pennsylvania.
Tanya encourages anyone feeling stuck to take a small step toward support and explore if her style fits their goals.
Tanya lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Avoidant personality
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, life transitions, and finding direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and skill building to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Mindfulness Therapy uses simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase awareness in daily life, which can help with stress and emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. That collaborative process makes it easier to mix techniques and try different strategies until a good fit is found.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text‑based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation and practice of skills, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check‑ins, and messaging lets people share updates between sessions. These flexible formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or everyday life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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