Tanaya Reid
Compassionate support for family and relationship change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tanaya
Tanaya Reid is a licensed clinical social worker who offers practical, down-to-earth help for people facing relationship and family challenges. She focuses on supporting LGBTQ+ individuals, families, and people coping with grief or major life changes. Sessions aim to be affirming and respectful of each person’s identity and experience.
Her work emphasizes listening first, then building clear, usable steps forward. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients make sense of their feelings and try new ways of handling difficult situations.
Background and approach
That often looks like setting small goals, practicing new communication skills, and testing ways to manage painful emotions. Tanaya brings three years of clinical experience as a California LCSW. She keeps sessions collaborative, inviting clients to shape goals and choose what feels most helpful.
She pays attention to cultural context and identity in each conversation. In family-focused work, she helps people talk through patterns that cause stress and find practical changes that reduce conflict. For relationship concerns she supports clearer communication and healthier boundaries.
For grief and life transitions she offers steady, paced support to make change feel less overwhelming. Her style is warm and straightforward. She helps clients identify small, concrete shifts they can try between sessions.
Over time those shifts are meant to add up to more stable coping and clearer connection with others.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Two evidence-based approaches commonly used are cognitive-behavioral techniques and skills-based coping work. Cognitive-behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new, more balanced ways of thinking that reduce stress and improve actions. Skills-based coping work focuses on concrete tools - for example breathing, grounding, and communication exercises - that people can practice between sessions to feel steadier.Another helpful approach is a strengths-based, identity-affirming framework that centers a person’s values and lived experience. This approach looks for existing strengths to build on and supports clients in aligning actions with what matters to them, which can be useful for relationship questions, family dynamics, and navigating identity-related stress.
Finding the right fit is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to decide which approaches to try based on their goals, needs, and what feels comfortable. That collaborative process includes checking in and adjusting methods over time if something isn’t working.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy family schedule and to keep momentum between meetings. Many people find the range of formats helpful for staying consistent and for using different modes of contact as needs change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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