About Tasheena
Tasheena Carlson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Washington with seven years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. She supports those facing ADHD, addiction concerns, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and career-related stress. Her work also addresses caregiver strain, blended family challenges, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Carlson takes a person-centered, strength-based approach. She meets people where they are and works alongside them to identify practical skills they already have.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, concrete steps that lead to real changes over time. The aim is to help clients build tools to cope and move forward. She believes safety and trust allow growth to happen.
Therapy is framed as a collaborative alliance, with the client viewed as the expert on their life. Within that partnership she helps people access strengths and practice new ways of coping when old patterns feel stuck. Her style is warm and straightforward.
Conversations are grounded and practical, and Carlson uses varied techniques that fit each person’s needs. She encourages goal-focused work while making space for processing emotions and past hurts. Outside of work she enjoys hiking, being in nature, painting, and singing loudly in her car.
Those activities inform a calm, grounded presence she brings to sessions and to the practical work of change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
She uses evidence-based approaches tailored to each person's needs. Person-centered work focuses on listening, building trust, and helping clients identify their own strengths and goals. This approach is useful for people coping with anxiety, low self-worth, or life transitions.Strengths-based techniques emphasize identifying existing skills and using them to solve current problems. That often looks like making small practical plans, practicing coping habits between sessions, and reinforcing progress to address issues like depression, addiction recovery steps, or caregiver stress.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try approaches that fit, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. Clients take an active role in deciding what to try and how to measure progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit short breaks or low-bandwidth situations, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English