About Tanya
Tanya Weekes is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She works in New York and focuses on clear, practical support for common problems like panic attacks and social anxiety. Tanya aims to make starting therapy feel manageable and straightforward for people who are nervous about seeking help.
She keeps sessions grounded and action-oriented. Tanya listens for what matters most to each person and helps them build step-by-step skills they can use between meetings.
Background and approach
She also offers coaching-style support for people who want focused help reaching specific goals alongside emotional work. Tanya pays attention to how gender and cultural background shape people’s experiences. That means she will notice how expectations, roles, or past hurts get in the way of feeling better and work with each person’s lived reality.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide the process while keeping recommendations practical and relatable. Sessions are a place to talk through upsetting moments, learn breathing and coping tools, and practice small changes that add up. Tanya emphasizes self-compassion and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Her style is warm, direct, and respectful of each person’s pace. People who prefer straightforward, skills-focused help tend to do well with her approach. She supports those dealing with low self-esteem, anxiety, depressive symptoms, and the aftermath of abuse or trauma.
Tanya aims to help people find clearer thinking and calmer days through ongoing, collaborative work.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online therapy
Tanya draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that teach practical coping skills and improve day-to-day functioning. One common approach focuses on learning specific tools for managing anxiety and panic - breathing strategies, grounding methods, and stepwise exposure to reduce avoidance. These techniques help people gain control over sudden panic and reduce its impact on daily life.Another helpful method centers on mood and thought work, which looks at unhelpful thinking patterns and replaces them with clearer, balanced thoughts. This approach is useful for depression, persistent worry, and low self-esteem because it creates concrete steps for changing how someone thinks and acts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tanya collaborates with each person to choose and adjust techniques based on their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly to see what is helping and shifts strategies when something isn’t working.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual connection for richer conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins or rapid problem-solving between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping momentum between sessions.
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- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English