Tanya Smith, LPC

Tanya Smith is an LPC with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. She creates a calm, affirming space where people can talk about anger, self-esteem, grief, intimacy concerns, and life transitions. Tanya often supports those navigating parenting strain, career stress, ADHD, and issues related to identity, including LGBT concerns.

Her work focuses on listening first and then building practical steps forward. Sessions tend to center on clear skills practice, communication work, and identifying what gets in the way of better connection with others. She uses a mix of evidence-based approaches to fit each person’s goals and situation.

Tanya blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based ideas with client-centered values. That means she helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try small changes, and strengthen emotional bonds where needed. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies for emotion regulation when that is helpful.

She aims for a warm and direct style. The focus is on concrete tools such as coping strategies for anxiety, routines for managing mood shifts, and communication practices to reduce conflict. Sessions also address practical problems like caregiving stress, chronic illness challenges, blended family dynamics, and adoption or attachment questions.

Tanya is based in South Carolina as a licensed professional counselor. She works with people over time to build resilience, clarify values, and make steady progress toward their goals.

How Tanya's Approaches Translate to Online Work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with hard feelings. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with behavior change and coping strategies, which can ease anxiety and mood problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape emotional patterns and helps people build safer, more trusting ways of connecting with others.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Tanya will work together with each person to see which methods fit their goals and preferences. That may mean blending approaches and trying different tools until a comfortable fit emerges.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten check-ins for quick support, and allow people to choose quieter surroundings without traveling. Licensed professionals can guide skill practice, communication exercises, and emotion regulation work through remote sessions in much the same way as in-person care, adapting tools to each person's needs.