About Tanisha
Tanisha Crawford is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She practices from New York and brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions. Tanisha focuses on clear goals and steady progress so people feel more in control of daily life.
Her work concentrates on relationships, parenting concerns, family strain, and coping with major changes. She also supports people facing trauma, addiction, grief, compassion fatigue, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Tanisha pays attention to how past attachment and adoption or foster care experiences show up now. Tanisha uses client-centered conversation to understand each person’s priorities. She blends this with cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change.
Solution-focused techniques help set short-term, practical steps for relief. Sessions are straightforward and collaborative. She listens without judgment and helps people build skills they can use between meetings.
Tasks and small experiments are common, so progress feels tangible. People who typically connect with her are looking for clear direction, practical coping tools, and a respectful space to talk through hard topics. She speaks English and accepts international clients for online work.
Her New York license is NY LCSW 084351.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s lead so goals come from what matters most. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes sessions around their priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. In online work this often means identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying small behavioral experiments, and tracking results between meetings to build momentum.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change. The therapist uses open questions and reflective listening to strengthen motivation and make small, doable steps more likely to happen.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. Plans are adjusted as progress is made so the work stays relevant and helpful.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let visual cues guide the conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection or scheduling. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, or caretaking routines without extra travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English