About Tawana
Tawana Cummings is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas with 12 years of experience. She focuses on everyday stresses and major life shifts and aims to make conversations clear and useful for people feeling overwhelmed. She uses practical, person-centered methods to help people who are dealing with anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and changes in self-esteem.
Sessions are shaped around each person’s situation, so conversations stay focused on real problems and next steps.
Background and approach
Tawana explains options plainly and helps set achievable goals. Her background includes long-term work with people facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, cancer-related concerns, and aging and geriatric issues. She also supports people experiencing family conflict, divorce and separation, fertility and fatherhood concerns, and the emotional fallout of trauma and disaster.
Tawana draws on approaches that encourage problem solving and skill building. She uses methods that help people manage strong emotions, change unhelpful thinking patterns, and build motivation for new habits. The aim is to leave sessions with a few clear strategies to try between meetings.
She treats conversations with respect and attention, and adapts the pace to each person. The first steps are simple - talk about what matters most, pick a small goal, and try straightforward tools to make daily life a bit easier.
Approaches that fit your life online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding your priorities. The therapist follows your lead and helps clarify what you want to change, which works well for stress, grief, and parenting concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple tools to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety or lift mood.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with you about your goals and preferences, then recommend a mix of methods to test. Together you can adjust the plan if something feels off or if different tools seem more helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Video calls work well for longer conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or you prefer no camera. Live chat and messaging help with quick check-ins, shorter support, or step-by-step homework between meetings.
These formats make it easier to keep regular appointments and try techniques in everyday settings. Licensed professionals can use the same therapeutic methods online as they do in person, and the goal is the same: practical steps you can use between sessions to feel better.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English