About Tanya
Tanya Underwood is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on steady, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed. She speaks plainly and listens first.
Background and approach
Her style is calm and respectful, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable for someone under stress. Tanya draws on 16 years of professional experience in Arizona to guide conversations about anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and addiction.
She also works with relationship and intimacy concerns, issues around self-esteem, and challenges like ADHD or chronic illness. Sessions are shaped around what each person needs right now, not a one-size-fits-all approach.
In therapy she uses accessible methods that help people notice thoughts, learn skills, and make small changes that add up. Tanya often blends cognitive-behavioral techniques with acceptance-based ideas and attachment-focused thinking to address both feelings and patterns in relationships.
She also uses client-centered listening to keep the pace comfortable and collaborative. People meet her for short-term skill building or longer work on deeper patterns.
She makes time to set clear goals and practical steps each session. That can mean learning new ways to manage stress, practicing emotion regulation, or figuring out how to rebuild trust after loss or hurt.
Tanya asks new clients to complete a brief matching questionnaire to begin. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life.
The subscription can be canceled at any time.
How Tanya’s approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting trapped by them, then commit to actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like depression and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of relating and connecting.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Tanya will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and adapt methods to fit what feels most useful. That collaboration helps shape goals, decide which skills to practice, and set a pace that feels manageable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice interactional work. Phone sessions are handy when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers audio only. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, quick skill reminders, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep regular contact between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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