Tawnya Thompson
Practical, experienced therapy for life transitions
LCMHC North Carolina
- Experience
- 25 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Depression
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Tawnya
Tawnya Thompson is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) with 25 years of practice based in North Carolina.
Background and approach
She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, coping with life changes, and addictions, drawing on long experience in settings such as substance abuse treatment, mental health crisis care, domestic violence services, and youth corrections. Her background includes individual, couples, and family counseling, and she emphasizes individual therapy as the setting where she is most effective.
Her approach blends solution-focused techniques, client-centered perspectives, and cognitive behavioral principles to help clients examine how their beliefs and actions influence their lives. She aims to help clients evaluate whether their thoughts and behaviors support their goals, while also building practical emotional skills to navigate life’s ups and downs.
Tawnya describes life as a continuum of temporary circumstances, and she frames therapy as a collaborative effort to strengthen coping, clarify values, and move toward healthier patterns. Licensed in North Carolina (NC LCMHC 5045), she brings the breadth of her varied clinical settings into each session and focuses on helping clients make meaningful changes through practical, reality-based work.
Online Approaches That Support Practical Change
Client-centered therapy focuses on the client’s own perspective and emphasizes empathy and collaboration to help people explore their values and make choices that feel authentic; this approach can be useful for those seeking a respectful, nonjudgmental space to reflect on life directions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) involves identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and developing concrete skills to change patterns of thinking and behavior, which is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) concentrates on understanding emotional responses and building supported emotional connections, and it can be beneficial for people struggling with relationship distress or intense emotional reactions.Finding the best approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to identify goals, try different methods as appropriate, and adjust the plan based on what feels most effective and aligned with the client’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and access support from wherever clients are located. These formats allow licensed professionals to use CBT, client-centered, and emotionally focused techniques in ways that match individual schedules and communication styles, supporting ongoing progress without requiring travel.
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Experience
25+ years
Licensed
North Carolina
Languages
English