Tyania McConnell, LCSW, CSW, LMSW

Tyania McConnell is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of psychotherapy experience. She holds LCSW, CSW, and LMSW credentials and practices in Georgia. She encourages clients to use their own strengths and views each person as the expert on their life story.

She focuses on straightforward, practical support for problems such as stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and ADHD. She also helps people facing career challenges, compassion fatigue, and the strain of caregiving. Her work includes attention to chronic illness and pain, cancer-related concerns, and issues that stem from adoption or blended family situations.

Her approach leans on client-centered work that follows each person's goals, mixed with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical behavior strategies and mindfulness practices are used to build coping skills and steady emotions. Existential ideas are woven in when clients are wrestling with meaning, purpose, or life transitions.

Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-focused. She offers coaching-style support when clients want practical steps toward change, alongside traditional talk therapy when people need space to process loss or trauma. The tone in sessions is direct, respectful, and grounded in real-life problem solving.

Clients who choose to work together start by identifying clear goals. From there she helps break goals into manageable steps, teaches concrete coping tools, and checks in on progress. The plan is adjusted as needs change so work stays relevant and useful.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-centered work focuses on following the person's lead. In practice this means the therapist listens closely and helps clients set their own goals, whether the issue is grief, caregiving stress, or everyday anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It breaks problems into small pieces and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and distress tolerance. It offers concrete strategies for managing strong emotions and improving day-to-day coping.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they choose techniques to try and adjust the plan based on what helps most.

Confirm the specific online session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and reduce travel time. It also can allow shorter check-ins on days when a brief session is preferable, or make it simpler to practice mindfulness and coping skills between appointments. The focus is on making therapy practical and usable in everyday life.