Tanya McClung
Compassionate, practical support for life's transitions
- Credentials
- LCMHC, MD, LCPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tanya
Tanya McClung uses a client-centered approach that helps people feel heard and understood first. She combines practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to address stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting concerns. Tanya emphasizes steady, manageable steps so clients can try new ways of coping between sessions.
Tanya holds the credential LCMHC, and also lists MD and LCPC. She has practiced as a licensed clinician for 10 years in West Virginia.
Background and approach
Her background includes training in counseling and years of direct clinical work with common mood and stress problems. Her work focuses on what is happening now and on patterns that keep problems going. She talks through negative self-talk, low self-esteem, mood swings, and coping with life changes.
She also addresses trauma and abuse, relationship challenges, grief, and family-related concerns. Tanya draws on multiple methods to match a person’s needs. She explains strategies in everyday language and teaches practical skills that can be used at home.
Sessions aim to reduce distress and build clearer problem-solving habits. Parents and people managing stressful life transitions can expect straightforward guidance and skill practice. Tanya also has experience with issues like attachment and family of origin patterns, adoption and foster care topics, aging concerns, and chronic illness challenges.
Her goal is to help clients identify root patterns and try workable changes over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person first, then building from their strengths to address stress and parenting concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and negative self-talk. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication under stress.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That process can include trying a few techniques and adjusting plans based on what helps most in day-to-day life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats let people access consistent support from home or work and make it easier to follow through with skill practice between sessions. The variety of ways to connect helps people keep therapy part of a busy life.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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