About Tanya
Tanya McClung is a licensed counselor in West Virginia who brings a practical, person-focused approach to therapy. She holds LCMHC and LCPC credentials and has ten years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. Tanya aims to create a calm space where people can talk about what feels overwhelming and learn skills to cope day to day.
Her style centers on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral strategies that look at thoughts, feelings, and actions.
How Tanya works
She also uses dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation and coping tools. Sessions emphasize clear, usable skills rather than jargon-heavy theory. Tanya draws on a broad range of clinical interests when people bring complex histories.
She addresses trauma and abuse, family of origin issues, attachment concerns, and problems like dissociation or emptiness. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, aging challenges, adoption and foster care topics, and communication or control issues. Practical matters such as parenting strain, relationship trouble, low self-esteem, and navigating life transitions are common topics.
Tanya helps people break down patterns, test new ways of coping, and build steady routines. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Her background includes training in several therapeutic frameworks, and she brings ten years of direct counseling practice to sessions.
People who prefer clear explanations and step-by-step skills often find her approach helpful.
Tanya lists 10 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCMHC, MD, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | West Virginia |
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Online support options
Online approaches that teach skills and build insight
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, understanding, and helping people find their own solutions. This approach is useful for people who need a place to reflect and decide what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build healthier habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving coping. DBT techniques are helpful when mood swings, strong reactions, or interpersonal conflict make daily life harder.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful, then try methods that fit. That collaboration helps tailor sessions so the techniques match the issues someone brings.
Online therapy is offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people meet face to face; phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into a busy life.
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