Tonya Wacker

Tonya Wacker is a licensed counselor based in Tennessee who partners with people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship pain, or the weight of past experiences. She works with those searching for peace of mind and a clearer sense of what makes them unique, helping clients explore identity, rebuild self-esteem, and move toward a brighter future.

She believes every person deserves a life of respect, love, and companionship regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background. To support that belief she uses a range of therapeutic approaches tailored to each person’s needs, including client-centered and solution-focused work, cognitive behavioral and cognitive processing techniques, existential perspectives, and art-based interventions.

With 14 years of professional experience, Tonya has worked with children, adolescents, adults, and families. She addresses a broad set of concerns such as anxiety and stress, mood disorders, trauma and abuse, depression, questions of sexuality and sexual identity, alternative lifestyles, coping with chronic illness, military family life, and transitions across the lifespan.

Tonya is licensed to practice counseling in both Tennessee and Kentucky, credentials that reflect her professional standing (licenses: TN LPC 5094 and KY LPCC 104252). She approaches care as a collaborative process, creating individualized therapeutic plans aimed at practical, positive outcomes. Her style is eclectic, eccentric, creative, and yes, a bit nerdy - all shaped to help people develop coping strategies, process old triggers, and rediscover a sense of wonder and well-being in their lives.