Tawnya Thompson

Tawnya Thompson is a licensed clinical mental health counselor practicing in North Carolina, holding LCMHC credentials (license number 5045). She has been working in the mental health field for over 24 years.

Throughout her career she has practiced in a variety of settings, including substance abuse treatment, mental health crises, domestic violence response, critical incidents, youth corrections, and in individual, couples, and family counseling. She has worked with clients experiencing depression, anxiety, stress, and psychosocial problems.

While her experience spans many environments, she finds she is most effective in individual counseling and integrates lessons from all those roles to inform her work. Her approach is primarily solution-focused and reality-based, with attention to how each client perceives themselves and the world around them.

She believes that decisions and behaviors arise from what people perceive is happening to them, and she aims to help clients evaluate whether their beliefs and actions are serving their best interests. She also works to ensure clients develop the emotional tools needed to manage life’s ups and downs. As she puts it, life is “a continuum of temporary circumstances that we all must navigate the best we can with the skills we have.” Her calling is to serve others, with the hope of contributing to improvements in their lives.