About Tonya
Tonya Pleasant offers straightforward, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She is Tonya Pleasant, an MD and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. She brings 25 years of experience and a focus on helping people take manageable steps toward daily coping and clearer goals.
She listens first and keeps sessions focused on what matters now. Conversations are aimed at finding small, useful changes rather than long lectures.
How Tonya works
Tonya uses concrete skills for sleeping, eating, managing anger, and reducing overwhelm so people can function better between sessions. Her background includes long work in counseling and rehabilitation, with training that informs a practical, strengths-based style. Tonya draws on approaches that help people notice unhelpful thinking, practice new behaviors, and strengthen close relationships.
She emphasizes each person’s resources and creativity when planning next steps. Typical sessions include skill practice, gentle reflection, and problem-solving tailored to parenting stress, caregiver strain, career transitions, grief, and compassion fatigue. Tonya also addresses intimacy-related issues, addiction concerns, seasonal mood shifts, and questions about life purpose and self-love.
She offers sessions in English and works with people in Maryland. The focus is on short-term, goal-focused work when needed, or longer-term support for deeper concerns. Tonya helps people track progress and adjust plans as life changes.
Tonya lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Tonya works with
The areas below are the ones Tonya selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
How Tonya’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes where someone wants clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to change patterns that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleeping and eating issues, and anger. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on understanding emotions in relationships and improving connection and communication when intimacy or relationship strain is present.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose what fits their goals, needs, and daily life. That may mean trying a skill-based method first, then moving to deeper emotion work if needed. Decisions are adjusted as progress and feedback guide the plan.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video lets people practice communication skills with real-time feedback. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, reminders, and coaching between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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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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