About Tanya
Tanya Edwards is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Wisconsin. She brings three years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, depression, and major life changes. Tanya aims to build a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak honestly and feel heard.
She focuses on clear, practical work in sessions. Tanya listens for what matters most to each person and helps set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Conversations may look at thinking patterns, current problems, and past experiences that shape feelings and choices. Sessions often include straightforward tools to manage anxiety and low mood. She also uses open conversation to uncover patterns that affect relationships and self-image.
When trauma or abuse is part of the story, Tanya moves at a pace that respects the client’s needs. Tanya supports parents who feel overwhelmed or uncertain about caregiving demands. She offers help with communication problems, postpartum concerns, and the stress that comes with major life transitions.
She also addresses issues around body image, guilt, shame, and finding personal purpose. Her approach blends client-centered support with active techniques such as cognitive-behavioral strategies and solution-focused planning. Tanya encourages collaboration so clients leave sessions with steps they can try between meetings.
How Tanya’s Approaches Work Online
Tanya uses client-centered therapy to follow the client’s lead and focus on what matters most to them. This approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and building a strong working relationship to support change.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that maintain stress or low mood. CBT offers concrete strategies and short exercises clients can practice between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Finding the right style is part of the work together. Tanya will talk through goals and preferences and suggest which approaches to try. She encourages clients to give feedback so techniques can be adjusted for the best fit.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when callers prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer quick check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English