Tanya DesArmo
Compassionate guidance for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tanya
Tanya DesArmo is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate family tensions and parenting challenges. She focuses on practical steps parents can take when stress, anxiety, or relationship strain makes daily life harder. Tanya speaks plainly and supports clients in finding their own strengths and next steps.
Her style centers on listening first and following the client’s lead. She uses clear tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and from solution-focused methods to set small, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are woven in to help with stress, sleep, and emotional regulation. With sixteen years of experience, Tanya draws on a variety of settings where she supported people facing trauma, adoption and foster care issues, and addiction recovery. She also addresses concerns such as grief, bipolar and depression, compassion fatigue, and challenges around self-worth and body image.
Her practice includes work around money stress, life transitions, and finding purpose. Tanya explains things in everyday language and helps people try concrete strategies between sessions. She encourages clients to notice what works and to adjust plans when needed.
The aim is steady, achievable progress rather than quick fixes. Sessions are geared toward building skills that carry into family life and parenting routines. Tanya emphasizes collaboration and respects each person’s story while helping them move toward clearer priorities and healthier patterns.
Approaches that guide online care
Tanya uses client-centered therapy, which means she focuses on understanding each person’s perspective and follows their priorities when planning sessions. This approach helps clients feel heard and shapes goals that matter to them.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT to identify thoughts and behaviors that increase stress or conflict. CBT provides clear, step-by-step techniques for managing anxiety, improving sleep, and changing patterns that affect family life and parenting.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Tanya discusses options with clients and adjusts techniques to match their goals, needs, and preferences. She encourages trying different methods and keeping what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which gives practical flexibility for busy family schedules. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into weekdays, caregiving routines, and work demands, while still allowing regular check-ins and progress over time.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
Next step
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