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Tanya Smith

Calm, practical help for life’s challenges

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Credentials
LPC
Experience
15 years
Licensed in
South Carolina
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Tanya

Tanya Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, anger, and low self-esteem. Tanya also supports clients facing relationship and intimacy challenges, parenting concerns, grief, career transitions, and issues related to ADHD and bipolar disorder.

Tanya keeps sessions straightforward and compassionate. She listens first, then helps clients set small, practical goals. Conversations focus on what’s happening now and clear steps to reduce distress.

Background and approach

She aims to make therapy feel usable for busy lives. Her background blends several evidence-based methods. Tanya draws from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify values and move toward them, and attachment-based work to look at how relationships shape feelings.

She also uses client-centered techniques to make space for each person’s voice and dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation when needed. Tanya practices in South Carolina as SC LPC 7676. She works with a broad range of life and identity concerns, including LGBT-related struggles, adoption and foster care issues, autism and Asperger syndrome considerations, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image.

The aim is practical support rather than labels. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Therapy subscriptions can be canceled at any time.

To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled based on availability.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when feelings are difficult. It can help with anxiety, depression, and big life changes by shifting attention from avoiding discomfort to building a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching coping and problem-solving strategies.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try different techniques, and adjust methods to fit what works best. Clients and therapist make decisions together about which strategies to use and how to pace the work.

Online therapy makes these approaches more accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options offer flexibility for parents and busy schedules, and let people continue work between sessions with brief messages or written exercises. The variety of formats helps match therapy to daily life and keeps progress practical and steady.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Tanya help with?
Tanya supports people managing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, anger, and self-esteem issues. She also addresses parenting, relationship and intimacy challenges, grief, career shifts, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and many related concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm and direct. She listens closely, helps set small goals, and focuses on practical steps that fit a client’s daily life.
What is her professional background?
She has 15 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of emotional and life challenges. That experience guides a steady, problem-solving approach to therapy.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with the license SC LPC 7676 and practices in South Carolina.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Costs vary by location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

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Experience
15 years
Licensed
South Carolina
Languages
English

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