Dr. Tanya Harrell
Compassionate, practical care for everyday family challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tanya
Dr. Tanya Harrell offers a practical, person-focused counseling style that centers on helping people find meaning and tools that fit their lives. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who uses straightforward techniques to address stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, and other common struggles.
Sessions aim to help people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward change. Dr. Harrell speaks plainly and listens closely so parents and individuals feel heard and guided.
Background and approach
With seven years of professional experience, she has supported people affected by trauma, domestic violence, and housing instability. That background shaped a calm, accepting way of working that emphasizes empathy and respect. She blends humanistic ideas with practical methods from cognitive behavioral approaches.
This mix helps clients understand what they value and practice skills to manage difficult thoughts and feelings. Her work includes attention to family and parenting topics alongside issues like grief, addiction, mood concerns, and self-esteem. She also addresses attachment, caregiver stress, and life transitions.
Each person’s situation is treated as unique, and sessions are adapted to match their needs and goals. Dr. Harrell focuses on building a strong working relationship first.
She helps people describe their problems in plain terms and sets simple, achievable goals. Progress is measured in everyday changes rather than clinical labels. Therapy with her often combines talking, skill-building, and values-guided decision making.
The emphasis is on useful steps parents or individuals can try between sessions to reduce stress and improve daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches applied to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. This approach can be useful for stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new skills to change mood and behavior, which often helps with depression, anxiety, sleep, and eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy attends to relationships and patterns formed early in life, aiming to improve connection and reduce repeating hurtful dynamics in family or caregiving roles.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Decisions about methods are collaborative and can shift as needs change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins or added support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
Next step
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