Tanya McClung, LCMHC, MD, LCPC
Somatic-informed counselor focusing on practical change
About Tanya
Tanya McClung is a licensed counselor based in West Virginia who centers therapy on the body and on practical talk. She blends somatic work with client-centered listening and cognitive-behavioral tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Tanya holds licenses as LCMHC and LCPC and brings a decade of counseling experience to sessions.
She focuses on everyday struggles like low self-esteem, painful relationships, parenting stress, grief, and big life changes.
Background and approach
Tanya pays attention to how emotions show up in the body as well as in thought patterns. That helps people notice physical reactions and learn ways to calm them. Her background includes training in several therapeutic approaches that inform how she works in session.
Tanya uses practical techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and to build coping skills. She also creates space for exploring meaning and identity in a way that feels grounded and immediate. People can expect time to describe what is happening now, and time to practice new ways of responding.
Sessions often mix gentle body awareness with clear skills for managing moods and stress. The aim is to reduce distress and increase daily functioning through steady, manageable steps. Tanya’s practice draws on ten years as a licensed counselor.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. She offers sessions by video, phone, chat, and text messaging.
How somatic work and skills translate to online therapy
Somatic-informed work focuses on how emotions and stress show up in the body. In online sessions this means noticing breathing, tension, posture, and simple body sensations and using gentle practices to increase awareness and regulation. These techniques can help with anxiety, trauma responses, and chronic stress.Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist offers open questions and reflective listening so people feel heard and can explore their thoughts and values. This approach supports those dealing with self-esteem, grief, parenting strain, and relationship concerns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Online CBT focuses on identifying thought patterns, testing assumptions, and practicing new coping strategies between sessions to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will help decide which methods fit a person’s goals, needs, and comfort. Sessions can combine somatic noticing, person-centered exploration, and CBT skills in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. This variety lets people choose what feels most accessible for their schedule, energy level, and preferred way of communicating. It also makes it easier to practice skills in real time and check in between sessions when helpful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English