Tanya D Mizell, LPC
Compassionate, practical support for parenting and life challenges
Book with Tanya- Years in practice
- 23
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Grief
About Tanya
Tanya D Mizell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan with 23 years of clinical experience. She works with adults on common struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, and stress, and offers practical support for parenting concerns. Tanya combines straightforward guidance with a calm, focused approach to problem-solving.
Her background includes long-term work with people facing trauma, complex mental health needs, and neurodevelopmental challenges. That history shaped how she listens and responds: she pays attention to patterns, life events, and the ways those influence daily functioning.
Background and approach
Sessions are oriented to goals and real-life changes clients want to make. Tanya uses methods that center the person and their choices, along with evidence-informed tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She often brings motivational techniques to help people find and act on what matters to them.
Conversations tend to be practical, with steps to try between sessions. Clients can expect a therapist who balances empathy with clear direction. Tanya is experienced supporting people through relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, career transitions, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses concerns such as ADHD, eating and body image struggles, and trauma-related reactions. Her training and long career include work in forensic and career counseling settings and with individuals living with complex, co-occurring conditions. Tanya’s approach aims to match techniques to each person’s goals while keeping sessions focused and accessible.
What Tanya works with
Everything Tanya lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Tanya helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tanya lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online sessions and practical support
Tanya frequently uses Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes listening closely and shaping sessions around each person’s priorities. This approach helps clients feel heard while deciding what changes matter most to them.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT offers concrete skills for managing anxiety, mood, and stress and provides focused exercises that can be practiced between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Tanya collaborates with clients to choose methods that fit goals, lifestyle, and preferences, and she adjusts plans over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone calls can be an efficient way to check in or fit therapy into a busy day, and text or chat options allow brief, ongoing support or quick skill coaching. These choices make therapy more flexible and easier to use around family, work, and daily routines.
Questions people ask about Tanya
What issues does Tanya commonly help with?
She helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma-related concerns, parenting stress, relationship and intimacy issues, and challenges like ADHD and anger.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style combines person-centered listening with practical strategies. Sessions focus on clear goals, skill-building, and motivational techniques to support changes between meetings.
What is her professional background?
Tanya has 23 years of clinical experience working with people who have trauma histories, complex mental health needs, and neurodevelopmental challenges, plus experience in forensic and career counseling contexts.
Where is Tanya licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in the state of Michigan.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats does she provide?
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How are sessions paid for and what does cost look like?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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