Tanya Smith is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and anger.
01About Tanya
Tanya Smith is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and anger. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier. Tanya creates a calm, accepting space where clients can talk plainly about what’s hard for them.
She often works with people dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, grief, career transitions, and challenges related to ADHD or bipolar mood swings.
Background and approach
Tanya also supports concerns such as compassion fatigue, body image, and the effects of chronic illness or caregiving responsibilities. Her experience includes work with adoption and foster care questions, attachment issues, and blended family tensions. Tanya uses several clear, action-oriented methods in sessions.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful patterns and on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values. Attachment-informed approaches help clients understand how early relationships affect current connections. Her style is warm and direct.
Sessions focus on concrete skills - breathing and grounding for intense moments, communication tools for conflict, and step-by-step plans for life changes. Tanya emphasizes self-compassion and practical strategies that fit daily life. Based in South Carolina as an LPC, she offers work that balances empathy with structure.
People come away with tools they can practice between sessions and clearer choices about next steps for their growth.
02Credentials
- LPC (South Carolina)
- License 7676 · expires August 2027
- NPI
- 1952959280 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Tanya lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- 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
Methods Tanya names
- 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
These are the methods Tanya names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Online approaches that focus on values and relationships
Tanya commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT - which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and still act in line with their values. ACT is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions because it focuses on small, meaningful actions rather than trying to eliminate uncomfortable feelings.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to help people understand how early relationship patterns influence current connections. This approach can improve communication, trust, and emotional closeness in relationships by tracking patterns and practicing new ways of relating.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tanya collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques as progress is made so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer short, frequent support and help people practice skills between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using approaches that focus on values, relationships, and daily coping skills.
05Questions people ask
What types of concerns does Tanya address?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, parenting and career challenges, and compassion fatigue among other concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Tanya combines a warm, direct approach with practical exercises. Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings and clear steps toward everyday changes.
How much experience does she have?
She has 15 years of experience working with a wide range of emotional and interpersonal challenges.
Where is Tanya licensed and based?
She is a licensed professional counselor - LPC - practicing in South Carolina.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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