About Tashica
Tashica Halyard is a licensed clinician who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, relationship strain, and ADHD. She practices in Maryland and brings eight years of professional experience to each session. Her approach emphasizes listening first and creating a space where clients can speak openly about what matters to them.
She focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. That may include learning new ways to handle intense emotions, practicing skills to improve sleep and focus, or building routines that reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Tashica explains ideas in plain language and works at a pace that feels manageable. Her way of working combines acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive strategies and emotion-focused techniques. She uses client-centered methods to center each person’s goals and priorities.
Sessions typically involve talking through current struggles, identifying small changes, and practicing new habits. Tashica has supported people facing family conflict, parenting stress, addiction concerns, and identity-related challenges. She also addresses attachment issues, communication problems, and forgiveness work.
Her background includes experience with trauma and abuse, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. People who choose her often want straightforward guidance and tools they can try between sessions. The process begins with hearing your concerns, setting clear goals, and testing approaches that feel relevant.
She encourages questions and adjusts the plan as needs change.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework. It often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and focus-related difficulties like those that come with ADHD. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on feelings in relationships and can help people improve communication and repair trust when connection feels difficult.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, listen to what has and hasn’t worked, and suggest methods to try together. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most so clients feel involved in deciding the path forward.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging is helpful for quick reflections, brief updates, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Texas, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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