- Years in practice
- 15
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Anger management
About Tanya
Tanya Smith is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting concerns. She focuses on practical steps parents and individuals can use right away. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making conversations clear and useful.
Tanya creates a space where people can talk about anger, low self-esteem, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. She also supports those dealing with ADHD, bipolar challenges, chronic illness, caregiving strain, and career pressures.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how past attachment and abandonment experiences shape current patterns. Her work blends practical skills and reflective listening. Tanya draws from cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and from acceptance-based strategies to help people stay present with hard emotions.
She also uses attachment-informed approaches to improve how people connect with others. Sessions move at a steady pace. Tanya helps people set small, achievable goals and practices new ways of responding between sessions.
She offers coaching-style guidance when clients want concrete tools for daily life. Based in South Carolina, Tanya sees the whole person rather than a single problem. She speaks English and brings a focus on culturally aware care.
Her approach aims to help parents and other adults build more effective habits and stronger emotional balance.
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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tanya lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Tanya’s approaches translate to online therapy
Tanya uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. This approach breaks problems into small, manageable steps and is useful for anxiety, depression, and anger management.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. This work helps people who want to improve communication, feel more supported in relationships, or understand recurring patterns with others.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Tanya works collaboratively to match methods to a person's needs and goals, and she adjusts strategies as progress is made. Clients and therapist check in together about what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. Video sessions let people practice skills and read nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or a quicker check-in. Live chat and text messaging can support brief coaching, check-ins between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family and work schedules.
Questions people ask about Tanya
What kinds of concerns does Tanya address?
Tanya helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, anger, self-esteem, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting, grief, ADHD, bipolar, and career stress among other concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic approach?
She combines practical skill-building with reflective listening. Tanya uses cognitive behavioral and acceptance-based ideas alongside attachment-focused work to address thoughts, emotions, and relationship patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has 15 years of professional experience supporting people through emotional and life challenges.
Where is Tanya licensed and located?
She holds an LPC credential and practices in South Carolina.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect.
How is cost handled for therapy?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the process to start working together?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a brief matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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