About Tanya
Tanya Underwood greets people who are feeling overwhelmed, worried, or stuck. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps. Tanya draws on 16 years of experience as an Arizona licensed marriage and family therapist to help people who are managing anxiety, stress, addiction, depression, and relationship struggles.
She treats each person with respect and compassion. Sessions are shaped around what matters to the client, not a fixed script. Tanya listens for what feels most urgent, then works with the client to set clear, manageable goals and next steps.
How Tanya works
Her approach pulls from several well-known methods to give clients tools that work day to day. Tanya uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts without being controlled by them. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and build different habits.
Attachment-Based ideas help when trust and closeness are part of the concern. Tanya also uses techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and a client-centered stance to support emotion regulation and personal agency. These methods are mixed to suit each person’s needs rather than applied the same way for everyone.
That flexibility helps with issues such as grief, intimacy, self-esteem, parenting stress, and career transitions. To begin, she asks questions about current struggles, history, and goals, then suggests practical exercises to try between sessions. Tanya emphasizes steady progress and skills people can use outside of therapy.
Tanya lists 14 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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- 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)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then choosing actions that match your values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical exercises to change patterns that keep problems going, which is useful for stress, mood, and relationship concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of closeness and trust formed in relationships and can be helpful when intimacy, communication, or past hurts affect current connections.Tanya treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences and suggest a mix of methods to try. Together you decide what feels most helpful and adjust the plan as work progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or when being on camera is difficult, and messaging or live chat can fit quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, and daily life while keeping therapy focused and practical.
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