- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Tanisha
Tanisha Crawford is a New York Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and major life changes. She focuses on practical support for parents and individuals facing relationship strain, grief, addiction, or trauma. Her approach centers on listening first and building on each person's strengths.
She keeps sessions straightforward and goal oriented. Tanisha uses clear skills and tools to reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day coping.
Background and approach
She helps clients identify patterns, test small changes, and track what makes life more manageable. Her background includes long experience with family and parenting concerns, attachment and adoption issues, and care-related stress. She also works with people facing ADHD, depression, anger, compassion fatigue, and substance-related problems.
This breadth means she can draw on different ideas that fit each person's situation. Tanisha often blends client-centered conversation with evidence-informed techniques. Expect a collaborative tone where the client’s priorities direct the work.
She encourages small, achievable steps and checks in on progress between sessions when needed. People who choose Tanisha usually want practical strategies and a steady, empathetic presence. She supports parents needing clearer routines or communication skills, and individuals seeking ways to manage anxiety, grief, or relationship challenges.
Her style is calm, direct, and focused on what helps now.
What Tanisha works with
Everything Tanisha lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Tanisha helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tanisha lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online parenting and life-change work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s story. It emphasizes empathy and reflection so clients feel heard and can decide what matters most to them. This approach helps when someone needs space to sort feelings, especially around parenting, relationships, or grief.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It uses step-by-step techniques to reduce anxiety, manage anger, and improve mood by testing small changes and tracking results. CBT is useful for people who want concrete tools to use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they choose or blend methods so the work fits the client’s life and priorities rather than following a fixed plan.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are helpful, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share thoughts between sessions and use brief check-ins during the week. These options increase flexibility and help people keep consistent momentum toward their goals.
Questions people ask about Tanisha
What concerns does she help with?
Tanisha works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and addiction. She also focuses on parenting, relationship and family-related issues and related areas such as attachment, adoption, and caregiver stress.
What is her general approach in sessions?
Her style is client-centered and collaborative. She uses practical techniques to build coping skills, set small goals, and track progress together.
How much professional experience does she have?
She has 20 years of professional experience working with individuals around stress, relationship concerns, parenting, trauma, and related challenges.
What credentials does she hold and where is she located?
She holds the LCSW credential and is licensed in New York.
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered to international clients in addition to those in New York. All sessions are conducted in English.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does payment and cost work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to begin working with her?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist’s availability.
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