About Tanya
Tanya D Mizell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Michigan with 23 years of experience. She brings long-term clinical work to each session and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, and ADHD. Tanya talks plainly and aims to make therapy understandable and useful for everyday life.
Her background includes work with people who have experienced trauma, abuse, and complex mental health concerns. Tanya has extensive experience supporting those with co-occurring conditions and neurodevelopmental differences.
Background and approach
Her training and years in the field shape a steady, practical approach to care. Tanya blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing. She helps clients identify patterns, try new behaviors, and set small, realistic goals.
Sessions are a mix of listening, problem solving, and planning steps to change unhelpful habits. She also uses narrative and solution-focused methods to help people rewrite unhelpful stories and focus on immediate strengths. This creates short-term wins while building toward longer change.
Tanya adapts methods to match each person's priorities and pace. People reach out to her for relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, career issues, caregiving strain, and identity-related challenges. She aims to make appointments manageable and therapy actionable for busy lives.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Tanya uses client-centered therapy to keep the focus on the person's goals and values. This approach involves active listening and reflecting so clients feel heard and can steer the work in the direction that matters most to them.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and routines and replace them with healthier ones. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday struggles that respond to step-by-step skill building.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Tanya collaborates with clients to decide whether client-centered techniques, CBT, motivational interviewing, or a mix will best meet their needs and short-term goals. She adjusts methods as progress and priorities change.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can fit brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or caregiving demands.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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 conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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