Tanya Barnes (she/her)

I have five years of experience with individuals and group counseling with teaching, managing and coping with anxiety. I use mindfulness, grounding techniques, and DBT techniques to help clients decrease their anxiety.

I have been working with trauma and PTSD clients since my counseling internship in 2016. I use a variety of techniques to help clients process their trauma and decrease trauma related symptoms. I have been trained in trauma focused CBT, Polyvagal Theory, and Brainspotting.

I have been working with depression since my counseling internship in 2016. I use a variety of techniques to help clients decrease their depression symptoms and improve their quality of life. I focus on helping clients establish and utilize coping skills that help break down negative thought patterns.

I have the most training and continuing education credits (CEU's) in DBT. I have been using it as a foundational theory since 2018 as well as incorporating some of the techniques to my personal life such as mindfulness and radical acceptance.

Person-Centered Theory fits my world view so I have been practicing it for most of my life but it did not know it until graduate school. As a therapist, I am genuine, authentic, empathic, encouraging, and have unconditional positive regard for my clients within session and our therapeutic relationship.

I received training in Solution Focused Brief Therapy while in graduate school and began practicing it in my counseling internship. It is a short-term goal therapeutic approach that I use with clients that have limited time to engage in counseling and/or they are struggling with an immediate issue where focusing on a solution instead of the problem would be more helpful at that time.

I have been working with individuals and group therapy to cope and manage anxiety since 2018. I use a variety of techniques to help clients decrease their anxiety related symptoms and improve their ability to have anxiety be something they struggle with, not their identity.