About Tanya
Tanya Lance is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 20 years of experience in North Carolina. She uses a whole-person approach that honors how feelings, thoughts, and daily habits connect. Tanya focuses on helping people practical steps to feel steadier and more like themselves.
She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression, and compassion fatigue. She also works with issues such as communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, life purpose, self-love, and social anxiety and phobia.
How Tanya works
Sessions aim to build skills people can use between meetings. Tanya blends several therapy styles so each plan fits the person. She draws on client-centered work to listen and follow the person’s lead.
She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot and change unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to manage strong emotions and reactions. Mindfulness practices are offered to increase moment-to-moment awareness, and solution-focused techniques help set small, achievable goals. Tanya encourages trying different ways of working and checking what is most useful.
She meets people where they are and helps them take practical steps forward. Her approach is steady and straightforward. She emphasizes strengths and gradual change.
People are supported to set goals, practice new skills, and notice progress along the way.
Tanya lists 6 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
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Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s priorities. In an online session this means the therapist reflects what matters most and helps the client shape goals that feel right for them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; online work often uses thought records, gentle behavioral experiments, and homework between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and effective communication so people can manage intense feelings and reduce reactive behaviors.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which skills and techniques to use and when to shift direction.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for a face-to-face style, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, keep continuity when schedules change, and use different formats for teaching and practicing skills.
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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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