- Values-based work
- Practical coping skills
- Relationship focus
About Tanya
Tanya Underwood is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 16 years of clinical experience in Arizona. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, relationship strain, and codependency. Tanya emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every session and aims to create a calm space to talk through what feels overwhelming.
She adapts conversations and the plan of care to each person's needs. Tanya uses practical strategies to manage anxious moments, reframe unhelpful thoughts, and build day-to-day coping skills. She also helps people navigate grief, intimacy challenges, sleep and eating concerns, and changes that come with work or life transitions.
Tanya draws on a mix of proven approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques to look at thinking patterns and acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and small steps toward them. Attachment-based work and client-centered listening help her focus on relationship patterns and what matters most to the client. Dialectical behavior tools are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities.
Her background includes long-term practice helping people cope with caregiving stress, chronic illness, parenting strain, and identity concerns within the LGBT community. Tanya works with people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care history, body image struggles, and other complex life themes.
She encourages a collaborative process where the person sets goals and Tanya supports practical progress. If you are ready to begin, she asks that you select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to schedule according to availability.
Approaches that guide online support
Tanya uses several practical methods in her work, including cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps, which can help with codependency, life transitions, and chronic worry.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns and client-centered listening to make space for each person's perspective. Choosing the right approach is part of the plan. Tanya collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences rather than prescribing a single path up front.
Confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow short check-ins when a full in-person session feels hard to schedule. Different approaches can be adapted to remote sessions, and Tanya will help figure out the best way to use the time based on the issues you bring and what works for your routine.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
16+ years
Credentials
Arizona
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Tanya address?
Tanya supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and codependency among other concerns.
How would you describe Tanya's therapeutic style?
She practices in a direct and compassionate way, combining listening with practical techniques to manage emotions and change unhelpful patterns.
What is her professional background?
Tanya has 16 years of experience working in clinical settings and community care, helping people with a wide range of life and mental health challenges.
What credentials and location are listed for Tanya?
She is an Arizona Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, listed as LMFT, and practices in Arizona.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions arranged and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin working with Tanya?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.