About Tyrenia
Dr. Tyrenia Cross helps people facing stress, anxiety, and life changes find clearer ways forward. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 20 years of experience.
Her approach is straightforward and focused on practical steps that make daily life easier. She helps people who struggle with relationship and intimacy-related issues, low self-esteem, depression, and addictions. She also supports those coping with grief, trauma and abuse, anger, career challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and build skills for handling difficult moments. Dr. Cross uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thinking that keep problems going and to teach new coping strategies.
She draws on two decades of work with adults facing major life transitions and ongoing stressors. The work is collaborative and goal-oriented, with tools clients can practice between sessions. Her practice also focuses on more specific concerns like caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, blended family dynamics, and issues around commitment and communication.
She pays attention to how past experiences shape current behavior and relationships. People who choose Dr. Cross can expect clear explanations, practical exercises, and a steady emphasis on building self-respect and emotional resilience.
The tone is warm and direct, aimed at helping clients take manageable steps toward improved wellbeing.
How CBT and online sessions fit together
Dr. Cross uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change thought patterns that feed anxiety, low mood, and relationship tension. CBT focuses on small shifts in thinking and behavior that lead to clearer choices and fewer overwhelming reactions. It works well for stress, anxiety, depression, and many daily coping challenges.She applies CBT techniques in a straightforward, collaborative way. The therapist and client decide together which tools to try based on the client’s goals and how they respond. That collaborative process helps shape which exercises and homework will be most useful between sessions.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for this work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a workday. Live chat or text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coaching, and follow-up between appointments. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent, practice new skills in real time, and adjust the format as needs change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English