Tanya L. Tibby, LCSW

Tanya L. Tibby is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and life transitions. She brings 20 years of clinical and leadership experience and focuses on clear, useful steps people can try between sessions.

Tanya works with people facing depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, and grief. She also supports those coping with career changes, low self-esteem, anger, and attention-deficit challenges. Her profile includes a range of additional focuses such as attachment problems, chronic illness and pain, communication difficulties, and forgiveness work.

Her style is warm and relaxed. Conversations are respectful and nonjudgmental. Sessions are shaped around each person’s real goals rather than labels or rigid rules.

Tanya draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches. She mixes these methods to suit the problem at hand and the person in front of her. That can mean learning practical skills, shifting unhelpful thought patterns, or exploring important relationship patterns.

Over two decades she has supported people through both sudden crises and long-term struggles. She helps clients set manageable steps, track progress, and adjust the plan as needed. If someone is ready to start, she offers an initial messaging consultation to discuss next steps.

How Tanya’s approaches work online

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors so people can feel and function better. It often includes simple home practice and clear goal-setting that translate well to virtual sessions.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how relationship patterns shape current distress and helps people develop healthier ways of relating. This approach can be useful for addressing relationship strain, family of origin issues, and attachment concerns through conversation and reflective exercises.

Client-Centered Therapy keeps the person’s experience at the center of the process, offering acceptance and collaborative exploration. This style supports people who want a respectful, paced space to talk things through while deciding on practical next steps.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Tanya will discuss goals, preferences, and specific problems and then suggest techniques that fit. Clients and therapist adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping choices collaborative.

Online therapy offers practical benefits such as scheduling flexibility and easier access from different locations. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and everyday life.