This didn’t start with acredential.
It started with needing answers.
Before Dr. Tanya Lea helped other people understand the patterns shaping their lives, she had to understand her own.
She served in the military, built a career in government and corporate leadership, earned advanced degrees and became the person others could count on when things were difficult.
From the outside, she knew how to handle hard things.
But pushing through didn’t make everything underneath disappear.
After living through trauma, PTSD, anxiety, chronic stress and eight major surgeries, Dr. Tanya began asking different questions about the connection between what we experience, what we carry and how the mind and body respond.
What if the answer wasn’ttrying harder?
What if meaningful change wasn’t about trying harder, but understanding what’s underneath the patterns we keep repeating?
Dr. Tanya had spent years doing what capable people learn to do:
Push through.Figure it out.Keep going.Try harder.
But eventually, Dr. Tanya discovered something that changed the way she understood herself and, later, the way she would help others:
You can understand what’s happening and still have your mind and body respond before you have time to think about it.
She wentlooking foranswers.
And kept going deeper.
Personal experience gave Dr. Tanya a reason to ask deeper questions. Education and training gave her new ways to answer them. She began studying human behavior, mental health, leadership, belief systems, the mind-body connection, bioenergetics and the ways our experiences can shape how we think, feel and respond.
Not to collect credentials.To understand the whole person.
What she brought together
- Mind.
- Body.
- Behavior.
- Lived experience.
Not four approaches. One whole person.
Her credentials
- PhDOrganizational Management / Organizational Leadership
- MAMental Health Counseling
- MBAProject Management
- MCC – Master Certified Coach
- Master Practitioner of NLPNeuro-Linguistic Programming
- Certified Bioenergetic PractitionerSomatic and Mind-Body Practices
- Reiki Master
- Certified Energy Healer
Dr. Tanya practices as a coach, not a licensed therapist, and does not diagnose or provide psychotherapy. Bioenergetic assessments are not medical diagnostic tests and do not replace medical or mental-health care.
That’s when this became about more than Dr. Tanya.
For years, Dr. Tanya had found ways to cope with what she was carrying. Some helped her survive. Others were hurting her.
She ate her feelings. She turned to substances and other destructive habits. She pushed through, kept functioning and kept achieving.
Until there came a moment when pushing through was no longer enough. For Dr. Tanya, that moment came from the floor of a hospital room. Nearly three decades after experiencing a sexual assault during her military service, she found herself screaming about what had happened twenty-nine years earlier.
She had built a life. Led people. Earned degrees. Built a career. Raised a daughter. Kept moving forward. Yet something from decades earlier was still capable of becoming profoundly present.
But as she began understanding the connection between her experiences, her patterns, her mind and her body, something changed.
She wasn’t just learning how to cope anymore. She was learning how to respond differently.
And that changed the question.
Instead of asking, “How do I get through this?” Dr. Tanya began asking, “How can what I’ve learned help someone else?”
That question eventually became bigger than her own healing. It shaped the education she pursued, the tools she learned, the work she does today and her desire to help other people recognize the patterns they may have spent years trying to outthink, outrun or simply live with.
What helped change her life became the foundation for helping others change theirs.
You don’t need to knowwhy you’re stuck.
That’s what the work is for.
Through my AWARE Method, I integrate coaching, nervous system and somatic awareness, belief work, NLP and complementary mind-body approaches to help you break unhelpful patterns, regulate your nervous system and create meaningful, lasting change in your relationships, work and overall well-being.
We’ll look at the full picture of your thoughts, your emotions, your body, your patterns and your lived experienceand create a path forward that actually fits you.
Work with Dr. TanyaThe AWARE Method
Assess
Understand what's happening.
Work Inward
Explore what's driving it.
Align
Connect values, body, choices and actions.
Reframe
Challenge what may no longer serve us.
Empower
Turn awareness into choice and action.
“She has an inner drive and strength not found in many, and a passion to help me become a better version of myself.”
“I always leave happier than I arrive. I gain so much value and insight, and find myself looking forward to every session.”
“This stranger who sat on the floor with my son became my coach, mentor, inspiration, and friend. She is an angel on earth.”
Your body may be telling you something.Hear Dr. Tanya talkabout the mind-body connection.
In this conversation, hear Dr. Tanya explore the connection between what we experience and what the body may be communicating through pain.
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Featured in print
In an exclusive magazine feature, Dr. Tanya opens up about breaking free from trauma, rewiring the subconscious and stepping into healing and transformation.
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