About Tuwana
Dr. Tuwana Wingfield helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, and changes in life. She is Dr.
Tuwana Wingfield, a licensed clinical social worker. Her tone is warm and direct, and she aims to make seeking help feel manageable and respectful. She focuses on practical steps that match each person's needs.
Sessions often look at how thoughts, habits, and relationships affect daily life. She works with concerns such as depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, career stress, and issues around intimacy and self worth.
Background and approach
Her background includes twelve years of direct clinical practice and additional experience in higher education and community programs. That history includes work in schools, early childhood programs, child welfare, non-profits, and employee assistance programs. She draws on that range to offer perspectives that fit real life situations.
In sessions she listens first and helps people set clear, doable goals. She uses a mix of client-centered conversation, problem-focused planning, mindfulness, and narrative work to move toward those goals. The plan is tailored to each person and adjusted as progress is made.
Her approach emphasizes dignity, respect, and cultural humility. She treats people as the experts on their own lives and helps them build on strengths they already have. The aim is to restore balance, refocus priorities, and regain a sense of control over daily challenges.
Approach and access for online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and collaboration so the person sets the pace and priorities; it helps when people need empathy and space to make choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and offers concrete exercises to change them; it is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve coping during intense moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. Then she will suggest a mix of approaches and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the client involved in decisions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging works well for ongoing, on-the-go connection. These options help people fit sessions into busy lives and keep continuity of care when schedules change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Arizona
- Languages
- English