Tanya Underwood, LMFT
Arizona · 16 years in practice
Tanya Underwood is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Arizona with 16 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LMFT, Arizona
- LMFT-15444 · expires January 2028
- NPI
- 1184815516 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 16
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Tanya
Tanya Underwood is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Arizona with 16 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and relationship struggles. Tanya aims to make the first steps toward support feel manageable and respectful.
She works with people who are coping with trauma, grief, intimacy concerns, and life transitions. Tanya also supports clients facing challenges like ADHD, compassion fatigue, career stress, and sleep or eating difficulties.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. In sessions she blends emotionally focused ideas with acceptance and commitment strategies and cognitive tools. That mix helps people notice difficult emotions, learn new ways to respond, and act in line with their values.
Tanya places attention on attachment patterns and how early relationships shape present struggles. Her style is client-centered and direct. She listens first, then offers simple skills, experiments, or reflections that can be tried between sessions.
Progress often comes from practicing small changes and noticing their effects. Tanya works with people dealing with abandonment, blended family issues, caregiving stress, chronic health concerns, and body image or self-esteem problems. She aims to build a working plan together so goals are clear and achievable.
The approach is collaborative and focused on what matters most to each person.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Tanya lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tanya names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Tanya’s Approaches Work Online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name deep emotions and change patterns that hurt relationships or self-connection; it can be useful for intimacy issues, attachment concerns, and processing painful events. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values to move life forward. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current patterns and supports building new ways of relating and feeling safe with others.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Tanya will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. This is a collaborative process where client feedback guides which strategies continue.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow for face-to-face conversation and connection, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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Questions people ask
What issues does Tanya commonly help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep and eating difficulties, ADHD, career strain, and related life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is client-centered and collaborative, combining emotionally focused work with acceptance and commitment and cognitive strategies to build practical skills and insight.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has sixteen years of professional experience working with a range of emotional, behavioral, and life transition issues.
What credentials and location should I know about?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, LMFT, licensed in Arizona and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats does she offer?
Therapy can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are fees and payments handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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