About Tanya
Tanya DesArmo is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience helping people get through hard moments. She focuses on practical help for everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. Tanya speaks plain language and aims to make therapy feel approachable and useful from the first visit.
She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths into the room. Sessions focus on building on those strengths while developing concrete steps to manage symptoms and meet goals.
Background and approach
Tanya keeps tasks simple so clients can try things between sessions and see what works. Her background includes work with trauma, parenting concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiving stress. That experience informs how she supports people who are dealing with loss, life changes, or complicated family dynamics.
She also helps with career questions, burnout, and relationship patterns like codependency. Tanya uses a blend of approaches to match a person’s needs. She draws on client-centered care to follow each person’s lead.
She applies cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used to set achievable, short-term goals. People who choose Tanya often want straightforward tools, clear next steps, and a supportive partner in change.
Her style is down-to-earth and goal-oriented, with attention to emotional healing. She works with adults who want practical support for life stressors and ongoing concerns.
How Tanya’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the client's lead and building on their strengths. It creates space for people to tell their story and decide what change looks like, which can help with self-esteem, life transitions, and grief.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers specific exercises and homework to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and handle ADHD-related challenges by changing patterns that get in the way.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It’s useful when someone feels stuck or unmotivated and wants to build momentum toward practical goals.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust plans as progress is made. That shared decision-making helps ensure the work feels relevant and doable.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from wherever they are. Phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, quick homework reviews, and flexible communication between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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