About Tanisha
Tanisha Crawford is a New York Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, addiction, and ADHD-related challenges. Tanisha speaks plain language and helps clients break problems into small, manageable steps.
Her style is warm and practical. She sees each person as the expert on their own life and listens first to understand what matters most.
Background and approach
From there she helps people identify patterns that get in the way and practices new ways of coping that fit real life. Tanisha uses approaches that emphasize goals and skills. She often draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on the person’s priorities.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Motivational Interviewing supports people making changes when stuck or unsure. She works with a wide range of concerns, including family and parenting stress, trauma and abuse, anger and intimacy issues, compassion fatigue, and substance use concerns.
Tanisha also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, attachment and control concerns, and the effects of chronic illness like cancer on caregivers. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people in and outside the U.S. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Tanisha aims to make therapy approachable and useful for everyday life.
Practical therapies that work well online
Tanisha often uses Client-Centered Therapy to make sessions focus on what matters most to the person. This approach emphasizes listening and building a plan that fits the client's priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is another common method she uses to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she and the client pick methods to try, checking in and adjusting as progress is made so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls let you work face to face when convenient. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and messaging allow ongoing support between longer sessions and fit people with busy schedules or irregular availability.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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