Lily Tanaka

About

My typical client is the designated strong one: the person everyone else counts on, who has been quietly managing a problem nobody around them suspects. By the time they call me, they're tired of being their own secret. I trained in community mental health before private practice, and it taught me to make therapy useful quickly and to respect what people carry in with them. Motivational interviewing anchors my work, because pressure has never once made a person ready; clarity does. For some clients that clarity leads into twelve-step rooms, and for others it leads somewhere else entirely; my job is helping you learn which is true for you. I offer a calm that clients tell me is rare: unhurried, direct, and nearly impossible to shock. I'm unfiltered when it counts and quiet when you need room to think. Whenever you're ready, the first conversation is easy to start.