- Focus on coping skills
- Collaborative goal setting
- Strengths based approach
About Tonya
Tonya Porter is a licensed counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self esteem, and depression. She emphasizes practical steps and steady support so clients can build confidence and feel more able to manage hard moments. Tonya frames the work as a collaboration and treats each person as the expert on their own life.
With eight years of clinical experience, Tonya focuses on concrete coping skills and clearer thinking. She listens for strengths and past successes and uses those as starting points for change. Sessions often include unpacking difficult memories, practicing new ways to respond to anxiety, and finding small, doable habits that boost self-worth.
Tonya also helps people who struggle with attachment and abandonment concerns, body image and self-love, communication problems, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose. She addresses mood shifts, panic symptoms, and the aftermath of traumatic events in a direct but compassionate way. Work may include pacing exposure to painful topics and building tools to handle strong emotions.
People who come for grief or midlife questions can expect straightforward conversation about values and practical next steps. Those worried about narcissism or sexual identity matters are offered a nonjudgmental space to name concerns and set goals. Tonya is licensed in Utah as an LCPC and holds an LCMHC credential; she practices in English.
To begin, she invites prospective clients to consider what they most want to change and what has helped before. That information helps guide the first sessions and shapes a plan that fits each person’s life.
With eight years of clinical experience, Tonya focuses on concrete coping skills and clearer thinking. She listens for strengths and past successes and uses those as starting points for change. Sessions often include unpacking difficult memories, practicing new ways to respond to anxiety, and finding small, doable habits that boost self-worth.
Tonya also helps people who struggle with attachment and abandonment concerns, body image and self-love, communication problems, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose. She addresses mood shifts, panic symptoms, and the aftermath of traumatic events in a direct but compassionate way. Work may include pacing exposure to painful topics and building tools to handle strong emotions.
People who come for grief or midlife questions can expect straightforward conversation about values and practical next steps. Those worried about narcissism or sexual identity matters are offered a nonjudgmental space to name concerns and set goals. Tonya is licensed in Utah as an LCPC and holds an LCMHC credential; she practices in English.
To begin, she invites prospective clients to consider what they most want to change and what has helped before. That information helps guide the first sessions and shapes a plan that fits each person’s life.