About Tonia
Tonia Guzman, MD, LCSW-C focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She offers steady, practical support for those coping with grief, major life changes, and challenges like ADHD. Her style is respectful and compassionate, made to fit each person's situation.
With 12 years of experience, she draws on clear, goal-oriented methods to help clients build daily skills. Sessions are conversational and focused on what a person wants to change.
Background and approach
Tonia adapts plans to match each person's pace and priorities. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new actions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take small steps toward them.
Motivational interviewing supports people who feel stuck or unsure about change. Tonia pays attention to relationship stress, parenting strain, identity concerns, and trauma history. She also helps with career pressures, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and impulsivity.
Practical problem-solving and short-term coaching are part of her approach when useful. Sessions can be arranged to fit different schedules and communication preferences. English-language services are provided in Maryland, and Tonia does not accept international clients.
Getting started is framed as a shared process to find the best path forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Tonia uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot patterns of thought that get in the way and practice different behaviors. CBT often helps with anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and problems with impulsivity by breaking larger struggles into small steps.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying what matters to someone and taking committed action toward those values, even when difficult feelings show up. Motivational interviewing is used when people feel stuck or unsure about change, helping them find internal reasons to move forward.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and may mix techniques as progress is made.
Online sessions can take place via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it simpler to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or medical needs.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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