About Tanya
Tanya Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 11 years of experience. She focuses on practical, goal-oriented work that helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and relationship and intimacy concerns. Tanya aims to make sessions straightforward and respectful so clients can talk about what matters to them.
Her approach centers on collaboration. Sessions are client-centered and draw on cognitive behavioral ideas and acceptance-based strategies to change unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses emotion-focused and existential ideas when clients want to look at feeling patterns or life meaning. Tanya has experience addressing a wide range of concerns. These include depression, grief, trauma and abuse, eating and body image issues, parenting and blended family challenges, and problems with communication and commitment.
She also works with people facing addiction, codependency, caregiver stress, and the strain of major life changes. In the room she aims to be warm and direct. She helps people identify small, practical steps they can try between sessions.
She supports parents with parenting and fatherhood issues and helps people sort through family problems and relationship conflict. Sessions can include short-term coaching or longer therapeutic work depending on goals. Tanya adapts methods to each person's needs and preferences, keeping the focus on clear actions, emotional understanding, and better day-to-day coping.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Tanya uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try practical behavior changes that reduce anxiety and depression. CBT focuses on skills you can practice between sessions to change patterns that cause distress.She also works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for stress, chronic worry, and making life changes.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and past experiences and suggest methods that match what you want to accomplish. Together you can adjust techniques over time so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is good for a face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging lets you share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity of care when life gets hectic.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English