About Tanya
Tanya Underwood is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 16 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship strain, trauma, grief, and ADHD. Tanya aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where clients can talk about what matters to them.
Her approach is practical and person-focused. She listens first, then shapes sessions around each person's goals and daily life. Conversations tend to center on clear skills, new ways of coping, and small steps clients can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Tanya draws on several evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques to change patterns of thinking and behavior. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and tolerate hard feelings without getting stuck. Attachment-based work is used when relationship histories and connection issues are central to a concern.
She has helped people navigate career transitions, parenting strain, eating and sleeping problems, and anger or intimacy issues. Tanya also supports clients dealing with chronic health conditions, caregiving stress, and major life changes. Her style is steady, engaged, and focused on practical tools.
Therapy sessions can be tailored to short-term problem solving or longer personal growth work. Tanya encourages clients to set clear goals and to check progress regularly. She invites people to take the first step and offers a straightforward path to begin.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Tanya commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her online work. CBT is a hands-on approach that helps people spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which is useful for anxiety, mood, and many everyday problems. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people name what matters to them, accept difficult feelings without getting overwhelmed, and take action toward meaningful goals.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Tanya will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and what feels most useful, then tailor methods to fit. She checks in regularly so the plan can change as needs evolve and progress becomes clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation and shared materials, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can support quick check-ins or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping work focused on practical steps and real-world changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- 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)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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