About Tuwana
Dr. Tuwana Wingfield helps people handle stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She is Dr.
Tuwana Wingfield, LCSW, and she speaks plainly with warmth and respect. Her style is interactive and focused on practical steps people can use between sessions. She draws on 12 years of direct clinical practice as a licensed clinical social worker and additional years in higher education.
That background means she has worked in schools, community agencies, child welfare, and employee assistance programs.
How Tuwana works
She has supported people with depression, bipolar disorder, parenting challenges, anger, and issues around intimacy and relationships. In sessions she uses client-centered conversation to put the person’s goals first. She mixes cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and solution-focused strategies to set small, doable steps.
Mindfulness and narrative techniques are used to help people notice patterns and reframe difficult life stories. Her approach is collaborative. She listens for strengths and helps build on them rather than label a person.
She aims to reduce stigma about seeking help and to create straightforward plans that fit everyday life. People who want coaching around career concerns, help with ADHD-related struggles, or support after trauma often find her practical, steady approach helpful. She works from Illinois as an LCSW and offers sessions in English.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire leads to scheduling based on availability.
Tuwana lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Tuwana works with
The areas below are the ones Tuwana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and centering the person’s own goals. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client’s lead, asks questions that matter to the client, and helps clarify priorities for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that get in the way and teaches practical tools to change them; online work often includes between-session exercises and short skills practice. Mindfulness therapy teaches ways to notice moment-to-moment experience without judgment, which can help with anxiety, stress, and emotional regulation during life transitions.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before. Together they try methods and adjust the plan if something feels off, making changes until the approach fits the person’s needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days, adjust timing quickly, and try different formats to see what helps most.
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