Tanisha Crawford
Calm guidance for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tanisha
Tanisha Crawford is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience. She practices in New York and focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, trauma, addictions, grief, depression, and related issues. Tanisha meets people where they are and helps them find practical ways to cope and move forward.
Her sessions are direct and respectful. She listens first and then works with each person to identify patterns and small steps that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Tanisha uses straightforward tools and conversations rather than jargon, so parents and caregivers can put ideas into practice quickly. In therapy she draws on client-centered work to build a trusting space and on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods help clients set clear, achievable goals and stay motivated through change.
These approaches are mixed to fit each person’s needs, not applied the same way for everyone. Tanisha has helped people navigate relationship strain, blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment questions, caregiving stress, and substance issues. She also supports those facing intimacy problems, anger, self-esteem struggles, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Her aim is to make therapy practical and relevant to everyday family life. Parents who want a steady, collaborative clinician may find her approach useful. She emphasizes small changes that add up over time and partners with clients to track progress and adjust plans as life evolves.
Approaches that fit family and parenting needs
Tanisha uses client-centered work to create a space where parents and caregivers can describe what feels hardest. This approach focuses on listening, understanding each family story, and building on existing strengths to find workable solutions.She also integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT to help identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that increase stress or conflict. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday parenting challenges because it breaks problems into specific thoughts and actions that can be changed.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tanisha treats the choice of methods as a shared decision, adjusting techniques to fit a person’s goals, family situation, and comfort level. She collaborates on plans, checks in on progress, and shifts direction when something isn’t working.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy family schedules. These options let people connect from home, follow up between sessions, and choose the format that feels easiest for their routines. The flexibility helps people keep momentum while managing caregiving and other responsibilities.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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