About Tanya
Tanya Smith is an LPC with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and anger. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting and career strain, ADHD, and issues linked to identity and grief. Her approach is straightforward and supportive, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
She creates a calm, respectful space where people can talk and figure out next steps. She combines tools from cognitive behavioral strategies with acceptance-based work to help people notice thought and behavior patterns.
How Tanya works
Tanya uses attachment-informed ideas to make sense of relationship struggles and to build clearer communication. She also draws on skills from dialectical behavior methods for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Sessions focus on clear goals and hands-on skills.
Tanya listens, helps name patterns, and practices new ways of coping together. She offers coaching-style guidance when clients want concrete plans for work, parenting, or life changes. Tanya has supported clients with complex medical, caregiving, and trauma histories, and she pays attention to how past losses and attachment wounds affect present choices.
She can help people facing chronic illness, adoption or foster care issues, and caregiving stress. Therapy is offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Tanya works in South Carolina as an LPC and conducts sessions in English.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their availability.
Tanya lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
Evidence-informed approaches for online counseling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thinking patterns and changing behaviors through practical exercises and skill building, which is helpful for stress, trauma symptoms, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build clearer communication and safer emotional connections.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tanya will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match goals, comfort level, and daily life needs. She may blend approaches over time so clients get both symptom-focused tools and deeper relational understanding.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth needs, and chat or messaging can be useful for shorter updates or between-session support. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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