- Years in practice
- 16
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Tanya
Tanya Underwood is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Arizona who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction struggles, relationship concerns, trauma, and parenting challenges. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone looking for support. Her style centers on respect, sensitivity, and compassion for each person who reaches out.
In sessions Tanya adapts the conversation and plan to fit a person’s needs. She draws on practical tools to address mood, coping, and behavior.
Background and approach
Parents often come to her for help with sleep, eating concerns, setting limits, or managing daily stressors. Her approach mixes evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance strategies with attachment-focused perspectives. Tanya also uses client-centered principles to follow what matters most to each individual.
She works to balance problem-solving skills with space to process feelings. With 16 years of experience, she brings steady clinical exposure to complex issues such as grief, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and trauma recovery. That background informs how she shapes goals and pacing for each person.
Tanya offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging so people can pick what fits their routine. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits with therapist availability.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic 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.
How Tanya’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters most and take value-driven actions despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It can help with anxiety, stress, and parenting choices where staying consistent matters more than eliminating discomfort. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape expectations and reactions; it helps people understand patterns that affect intimacy, communication, and caregiving choices.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Tanya will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try practical strategies, and adjust methods based on what feels useful. The therapist invites input and checks in about progress so the plan evolves with the client's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different routines. Video lets people work through material face to face, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter real-time check-in, and messaging supports ongoing, written reflection between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
Questions people ask about Tanya
What kinds of concerns does Tanya address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, depression, parenting challenges, grief, and related concerns such as sleep and eating problems.
What is her general approach in therapy?
Sessions blend practical strategies and emotional processing. Tanya adapts sessions using approaches like cognitive behavioral and acceptance-based techniques alongside attachment-focused work.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Tanya has 16 years of professional experience working with a wide range of concerns including compassion fatigue, ADHD, and trauma-related issues.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, LMFT, practicing in Arizona.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different schedules and needs.
How does pricing and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Tanya?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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