About Tyania
Tyania McConnell is a licensed clinical social worker who brings ten years of psychotherapy experience to her work. She honors each person's strengths and treats the client as the expert on their life. Tyania focuses on helping people take the first step toward a more satisfying life and stays with them through the process.
She holds LCSW and other social work credentials, and practices from Georgia. Her background includes work with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and self-esteem issues.
Background and approach
She also supports people managing career strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD concerns, and the emotional effects of trauma and abuse. Tyania often helps clients facing life transitions, relationship and communication difficulties, and blended family or adoption-related stress. She also brings experience with aging and caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, and challenges tied to cancer or first responder work.
In sessions she uses practical, evidence-informed approaches. Her methods include client-centered work that follows the person’s pace, cognitive behavioral techniques for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior, and mindfulness exercises to reduce reactivity. Her style is direct but respectful, aiming to create clear goals and small steps people can use between sessions.
She encourages honest conversation, skill practice, and steady progress toward the changes clients want.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. It helps people feel heard and lets the session move at their pace, which works well in video or phone meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress and adapts easily to worksheets or brief exercises in messaging or video.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. Collaboration means checking in and adjusting tools and pacing as progress is made.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls are good for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to share thoughts between sessions and get brief support without scheduling a full call.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, South Carolina, Michigan, Colorado
- Languages
- English