Welcome! Hi, I'm Tanya 👋
Dr Tanya McGhee: Mum Therapist
I'm here to help anxious Mums ditch the over-thinking, feel calm and be kinder to themselves!
let go of your anxiety (and cranky pants!) in therapy with m
Individual Therapy
Mini-Therapy: 4 Calls
Mini-Therapy: 4 Calls
Individual Therapy is for you If we've talked before and you know you want to kickstart some help (but you'd rather book calls one by one). Fair enough! No lock in contract for ongoing calls. Help for anxiety, overwhelm, parenting, workplace stress, relationship issues, family conflict and more. Hurray!
Investment of each 45min private Zoom call $177AUD (cancellation fee applies)
Mini-Therapy: 4 Calls
Mini-Therapy: 4 Calls
Mini-Therapy: 4 Calls
You know you want help, yay for you! In four calls we can really get stuck into practical ways to ditch the overwhelm, manage anxiety and problem solve some of those tricky kid behaviours (that are, just quietly, driving you craaazy 🙄). Yes, let's gooo! (plus you save a bit, yay!)
Investment of Mini-Therapy $697AUD - and yep, there's a split pay option, hurray!
ME Package
Mini-Therapy: 4 Calls
ME Package
ME is the package for you when you know you want longer term support. Eight calls over four months to really make some purposeful ongoing change when it comes to your mental well-being, parenting, anxiety, letting go of perfectionisms or control-freakyness and prioritising you, yay!
Investment of ME $1287AUD or $357AUD x 4 (the full pay is the best value for $ too, just quietly!)
Practical Parenting Help at Your Fingertips - online courses
Managing Meltdowns
Managing Meltdowns
Managing Meltdowns
Are you trying to gentle parent an un-gentle child?! You've tried punishments and time-outs and being patient, but it’s really hard with this big feelings kid..In Managing Meltdowns, you’ll learn how to effectively and patiently identify your child’s need, your own parenting triggers, how to stay calm yourself and how to use your child’s love language to deescalate their meltdown.
Practical parenting help is HERE!
Listening Ears
Managing Meltdowns
Managing Meltdowns
Do you want your child to just do what you ask without having to yell, plead, beg 17 times?!
Listening Ears will teach you how to talk so your child listens, how to use house rules and positive reinforcement to get them to actually do the thing!
Enrol HERE for effective parenting advice!
Little Fish: Parenting Anxious Kids
Little Fish: Parenting Anxious Kids
Little Fish: Parenting Anxious Kids
You've tried calming techniques, distraction, and positive reinforcement, but nothing seems to work for your anxious kid! Little Fish is The Practical parenting help you need to manage your child's endless exhausting worry. Find out if anxiety is causing your child’s problems here.
C.A.L.M.!
Little Fish: Parenting Anxious Kids
Little Fish: Parenting Anxious Kids
Are you often feeling overwhelmed? Do you kinda hate mindfulness or you’re not how to do it but you want to learn? CALM is the self-help must-have course for busy Mums who are sick of stress taking over your life! Learn mindful breathing, 7 ways to de-stress and long term strategies for mental wellbeing. Feel calmer now!❤️
Parent Coaching
Hot-Seat Parent Coaching: 1 x 60 min Zoom Call 🔥
Do have one or two problems you want specific and professional input on? Book with Dr Tanya for this once-only Personalised Parent Coaching and she will give you practical, evidence-based, gentle parenting help. Problems with kids fighting, toileting, sleep, picky eating. Anything! Nothing is too small!
Every effort will be made to accomodate your availability. BOOK HERE for Personalised and Practical Parenting Help!
Well, now I'm overwhelmed by my overwhelm...
Not sure if I'm therapist for you? Or if you should do an online course or a Hot-Seat Parenting Call or what???
I get it. It can be confusing! Book a 15min Free Intro Call so you can see if I'm your person.
I'd love to chat! (you're under no obligation to commit to anything, promise!)
And yes, I see beautiful women (not all Mums) from all over the world. All Timezones are welcome! Yay, let's chat!
About me
Hi! I'm Tanya. I'm a medical doctor whose sole passion is mental health, especially Mums! I graduated from medicine in 2003, from the University of Otago, New Zealand. I moved to Australia in 2006 to pursue general practice training. I have always had a keen interest in mental health and anxiety treatments. I have a Master of Counselling (completed 2024).
As a sometimes-loses it (ahem, busy!) mum of three, I get how Mum life can feel smothering. I'm here to help! Practical stuff, parenting stuff, evidence-based stuff!
I have advanced training in psychological services. I’m also a trained Circle Of Security facilitator (COS-I). COS is an international organisation who promote attachment based parenting.
My go-to stuff:
- mindfulness (Even if you haaaate it or have zero time for it!)
- cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)
- acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
- dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)
- trauma-informed care
- circle of security parenting (VIDEO explanation here!)
My Experience
- Medical degree - MBChB 2003
- General Practice Fellowship - FRACGP 2010
- Master of Counselling - MCnsllg 2024
- 15 years of Family Medicine
- Level 1 and 2 Mental Health Skills Training - Focussed Psychological Strategies 2021
- Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator - COSP 2022
- Mum to three crazy kids!
Memberships
Struggling with stress? Get my Free Smash Mum Stress Guide here, take the first step to feeling zen again!