About Tanya
Depth-oriented therapy for high-functioning adults and couples in Encino, Studio City, and virtually throughout California, Nevada, and Oregon.
WHO I AM
I'm Tanya—a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in San Fernando Valley.
I see clients in-person in Encino and Studio City, and virtually throughout California, Nevada, and Oregon.
II work primarily with high-functioning adults, professionals, creatives, and ambitious overthinkers whose external lives look like they're working — and whose internal lives are asking for something more.
You might recognize yourself in this: capable, driven, the person other people lean on. And underneath the capability is a quiet exhaustion you've been carrying for longer than you realized.
That's the kind of work I'm built for. Not crisis intervention. Not surface-level coping tools. The deeper, slower work of actually understanding what's running underneath your life — and starting to shift it.
In addition to in-office and virtual sessions, I offer concierge therapy for clients across Westside LA, Greater LA, Malibu, Calabasas, and Westlake Village—including executives, founders, public-facing clients, new parents, and families whose schedules or privacy needs require sessions to come to them.
MY APPROACH
HOW I THINK ABOUT THIS WORK
A lot of what passes for therapy is one of two things: a venting session with no direction, or a worksheet-driven program of coping skills that helps for a week and dissolves on contact with real life.
I don't do either.
My approach is depth-oriented without being meandering. Clinical without being cold. Modern without being trendy. I work with what's actually happening in your life right now — and with what's underneath it, because the present moment is almost always shaped by older patterns trying to keep you safe.
I integrate insight-oriented therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), psychodynamic work, and evidence-based cognitive tools. The framework adapts to what you need — but the foundation stays the same: we go to the root.
A few things I believe about this work:
Insight is necessary but not sufficient. Most of my clients arrive with significant self-awareness. What they need isn't more analysis — it's a process that reaches the level where patterns are actually held.
The body is part of the conversation. Anxiety, burnout, and patterned reactivity live in the nervous system. Working with what's happening physiologically isn't a wellness trend — it's clinical practice.
The relationship is the work. For people whose patterns are relational — and most people's are — the experience of being in a consistent, attuned, professional relationship is part of what changes the template underneath.
You don't have to be in crisis to deserve good therapy. Some of the most meaningful work happens with people who are functioning, capable, and starting to suspect there's more available to them than they've been letting themselves want.
WHO I WORK WITH
WHO I’M BEST FOR
My practice is focused on a specific kind of client:
High-functioning anxious adults whose anxiety doesn't disrupt their lives so much as quietly run them.
Professionals, founders, and creatives navigating success that costs more than it returns.
Overthinkers and perfectionists whose minds are both their greatest asset and their exhaustion.
People recovering from burnout who don't want a repeat.
Adults in life transitions — career shifts, relationship changes, identity questions, becoming parents, or navigating what comes after achieving the thing you thought would change everything.
Couples working through communication patterns, conflict cycles, or seasons of disconnection.
The chronically overfunctioning — people who have been "the strong one" so long they've forgotten who they are without the role.
The common thread: smart, capable people who are ready for the kind of work that doesn't just make them feel better in the moment but actually changes something underneath.
MY CLINICAL APPROACH
I integrate several evidence-based therapeutic modalities, chosen and combined based on what each client actually needs.
The frameworks I draw from most:
Internal Family Systems (IFS) — a depth-oriented approach for working with the different "parts" of you (the inner critic, the perfectionist, the protector, the part of you that just wants to rest) and the relationships between them
Psychodynamic Therapy — for understanding how early relational templates and unconscious patterns shape your current experience
Attachment-Based Therapy — for the relational patterns that show up in love, work, and friendship
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) — for the practical, evidence-based tools that translate to real life
Nervous-System-Informed Therapy — for the physiological work that has to happen alongside the cognitive work
The goal isn't loyalty to any single school. It's giving you what the work actually requires.
MY BACKGROUND AND QUALIFICATIONS
BACKGROUND & TRAINING
I received my Master of Science in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from California Lutheran University. My undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Science in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University, where I graduated Magna Cum Laude.
I've spent nearly a decade working with adults and couples across a range of clinical settings before building a private practice focused on high-functioning anxiety, perfectionism, burnout, and relationship dynamics.
Licenses: California LMFT #108113 | Nevada LMFT #5237-R | Oregon LMFT #T3621
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT ME
I'm based in Los Angeles, which means I understand—up close—the specific cultural pressures my clients are navigating. The achievement culture. The optimization culture. The performance of wellness. The strange experience of being surrounded by ambition that doesn't quite leave room for being a person.
That context matters. You don't want a therapist who has to be taught what it's like to live in this city.
Ready to talk?
If something here is resonating, the next step is simple. A 15-minute consultation is the easiest way to find out if we're the right fit—no pressure, no commitment, just a focused conversation about what's been going on and whether this work might help.
You don't need to come in knowing what to say. You don't need to have your story organized. You just need to come in.