About Talya
Talya Van den Berg is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and life transitions. She also supports those facing ADHD concerns, identity and LGBT questions, relationship stresses, self-esteem struggles, career uncertainty, depression, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and she works with clients in Maryland and internationally.
Her style is warm and supportive. She focuses on building a strong working relationship and helping people find their own strengths and solutions.
Background and approach
Talya frames conversations in clear, everyday language and aims to make the first steps feel manageable. Talya uses practical talk therapy methods drawn from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral approaches. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns, try new behaviors, and set small, achievable goals.
Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are layered in where they fit the person and problem. She brings three years of documented experience as an LCSW, with licensure in California and Maryland listed as CA LCSW 25299 and MD LCSW-C 24084. That background includes work in medical and grief care settings and an awareness of cultural influences from growing up overseas.
In sessions she typically blends listening with concrete steps. That might look like naming patterns, practicing grounding or mindfulness, and planning one small change before the next visit. People often start by identifying one or two goals to work toward together.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then pick actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, coping with loss, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thinking patterns and behavior links and teaches clear tools for testing and changing unhelpful habits. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the person’s own insights guide the work; it can help people feel heard and find their own solutions.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying one approach for a while and adjusting if something else fits better.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a lunch break or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit regular work on goals into busy lives and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, California
- Languages
- English