Tanya DesArmo, LCSW
Practical support for parenting and family stress
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- 16
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Tanya
Tanya DesArmo is a Wisconsin licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical help for everyday parenting stresses. She speaks plainly and works to make sessions feel useful and manageable for busy people. Tanya centers the parent's goals and strengths when exploring problems at home.
She draws on 16 years of clinical experience and emphasizes that people know their own story best. Sessions aim to build confidence, clarify priorities, and find small changes that add up.
Background and approach
Tanya offers steady support while helping clients try different strategies and notice what works. Tanya uses methods that help change thoughts and behaviors, learn new coping skills, and stay present during hard moments. She helps people facing trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and life transitions.
Parenting challenges, adoption and foster care issues, abandonment, and caregiver stress are among her common focuses. Work together may include identifying unhelpful thinking, practicing mindfulness skills, setting realistic goals, and boosting motivation. Tanya also addresses body image, money and career worries, loneliness, and self-love as part of broader life stress.
The approach is collaborative and oriented toward practical steps. Sessions can include short-term coaching-style work or longer exploration when needed. Tanya frames progress as small, steady shifts rather than sudden fixes.
The aim is to leave clients with clear next steps and more confidence handling parenting and family pressures.
What Tanya works with
Everything Tanya lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Tanya helps people with.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tanya lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-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.
How Tanya’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the parent's goals. The therapist follows the person’s lead and helps build on existing strengths to address parenting and family concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. It uses clear, step-by-step exercises to change thinking patterns and develop practical skills for anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tanya collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She may combine listening, skill practice, goal-setting, and motivational techniques to create a plan that fits the client.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people connect face-to-face for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not wanted or bandwidth is limited. Chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy family schedules and make it easier to keep work moving forward.
Questions people ask about Tanya
What issues does Tanya help with?
She works with parenting and family stress, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, addiction-related concerns, grief, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She uses client-centered listening plus practical methods to change thoughts and behaviors.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Tanya has 16 years of professional experience working in social work and related settings.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds an LCSW and is licensed in Wisconsin.
Which languages and international clients are supported?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
In what formats are sessions offered?
Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Tanya?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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