Tonya Wacker, LPC, LPCC
Kentucky · 14 years in practice
Tonya Wacker is a licensed professional counselor with 14 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LPCC, Kentucky
- 104252 · expires December 2026
- LPC, Tennessee
- 5094 · expires January 2027
- NPI
- 1295188910 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 14
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Tonya
Tonya Wacker is a licensed professional counselor with 14 years of clinical experience. She practices from Tennessee and works with adults on a wide range of concerns. Tonya brings a direct, compassionate presence and focuses on helping people locate strengths that feel lost or hidden.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens for what matters most and helps clients set clear, manageable goals. Sessions are practical and tailored, using conversational work, skill practice, and reflection to change how people respond to stress and relationships.
Background and approach
Tonya uses several therapy approaches to fit each person’s needs. She draws on Existential therapy to address meaning, life direction, and feelings of emptiness. Client-centered techniques keep the client’s experience central, while Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She has experience with a broad set of concerns including anxiety, depression, stress, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and identity matters such as gender dysphoria and HIV/AIDS. Additional focuses include abandonment, midlife concerns, first responder issues, and alternative sexual culture topics.
Sessions can include practical tools for managing emotions, communication skills, and pacing through life transitions. Tonya aims to help people build plans they can use outside sessions. Her approach blends creativity, straightforward work, and attention to personal values.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Tonya lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Commitment issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Approaches Tonya names
- Existential Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Existential therapy focuses on questions of meaning, purpose, and personal values. Online sessions using this approach help people process feelings of emptiness, life direction, and major transitions by talking through choices and what matters most to them.Client-centered therapy emphasizes acceptance and listening. In virtual work this means sessions center on the client’s experience, with the therapist reflecting and clarifying so the person can discover their own solutions and strengths.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with more helpful ones. Remotely this often includes thought records, small behavior experiments, and homework that can be reviewed in the next session.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative process helps find what feels useful and sustainable.
Online work offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth conversation and skill practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can provide brief check-ins or on-the-go support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy or changing schedules.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Tonya address?
She helps with anxiety, depression, stress, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and identity matters including gender dysphoria and HIV/AIDS.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, blending client-centered listening with practical skill building and reflective conversation to help people meet their goals.
What is her professional background?
She has 14 years of experience working in counseling and has spent many years assisting people with life transitions, relationships, alternative sexual culture topics, and first responder issues.
Where is she based and what credentials does she hold?
She practices from Tennessee and holds the credentials LPC and LPCC, listed as TN LPC and KY LPCC.
In which languages can clients meet with her?
Sessions are offered in English, and she also accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does pricing and subscription work?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to begin working together?
To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
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