Tawana Cummings

Tawana Cummings is a Texas Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, self-esteem concerns, and major life changes. Sessions focus on practical steps and conversations that help people manage day-to-day problems and decisions.

Tawana uses plain language in sessions and centers the discussion on each person's circumstances. She combines client-centered work with goal-focused techniques to address motivation and confidence. That means listening first, then suggesting small changes and skills to try between meetings.

Her background includes supporting people through health-related challenges such as cancer, chronic illness, and caregiver stress. She also helps with issues related to aging and geriatric concerns, fertility and postpartum adjustment, and the emotional effects of divorce or separation.

Additionally, Tawana addresses communication problems, control issues, grief after loss, and the emotional impact of disasters or first responder stress. She works with people dealing with guilt, shame, forgiveness, and HIV/AIDS related concerns. The approach blends cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused techniques to make problems more manageable.

Tawana aims to create clear next steps in therapy rather than abstract plans. She encourages straightforward conversations about what is working and what needs to change. To begin, visitors select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

How her approaches translate to online sessions

Tawana uses client-centered work and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in ways that suit online sessions. Client-centered therapy involves focused listening and reflecting back what matters most to the person. It helps people clarify feelings and decide which issues to tackle first. CBT breaks larger problems into smaller parts and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be practiced between meetings.

She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills when emotions feel overwhelming. DBT techniques include simple coping tools for managing intense feelings and improving how someone responds to stress. Together these approaches give both short-term coping tools and longer-term behavioral changes through collaborative planning with the therapist.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and then recommend which methods to try. That decision is revisited as progress is made so sessions stay aligned with the client's needs.

Confirm the specific session formats before booking, since the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around work, medical appointments, or caregiving duties. It can also allow for shorter check-ins or turning off video when bandwidth is limited, helping therapy fit into an everyday schedule without promising a particular service.