Tania Valente , LMFT

Tania Valente is a licensed clinician based in Texas with 18 years of clinical experience supporting individuals, couples, and families. She holds a Texas psychologist license (LIC# 39799) and is also a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - in New Mexico (LIC# CMF0200391). An LMFT is a credential that indicates specialized training in working with couples and family systems, while her psychologist license represents independent practice authority in Texas.

Tania uses an interpersonal, systemic, and supportive stance, grounded in the belief that healing often occurs through compassionate relationships. She approaches work with empathy and open-mindedness, collaborating with people to identify and pursue goals that matter to them. Her practice focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, intimacy-related challenges, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep difficulties, parenting struggles, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.

Her clinical background spans a wide variety of settings - including inpatient psychiatric hospital care, non-profit and community health programs, university counseling centers, integrated behavioral health settings, hospice, and government services - which informs a flexible and experienced approach to care. She has specialized training in couples and family interventions, drawing on Gottman Method principles, Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), solution-focused strategies, and other systemic models. Tania integrates multiple evidence-informed modalities such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), hypnotherapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and brief, solution-oriented techniques to address a broad range of symptoms and life challenges.

Therapy is offered in English and Portuguese, and Tania has worked with diverse populations across many clinical contexts. Her training and varied practice environments enable a tailored blend of therapeutic tools aimed at helping people move toward clearer priorities, improved relationships, and greater coping capacity.

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