About Tamara
Tamara Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and life transitions. She works to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak openly and feel heard. Her style centers on practical steps and steady support rather than quick fixes.
With 28 years of experience, Tamara draws on several approaches to match each person's needs. She often uses client-centered methods to follow what people find most important.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Tamara incorporates skills from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to help with emotion regulation and staying present. Motivational interviewing is part of her toolbox for people facing ambivalence or substance-related challenges.
These approaches are selected to suit the issue at hand rather than applied by rote. Sessions typically focus on concrete goals such as improving sleep, managing impulsivity, calming anxiety attacks, or repairing communication patterns. Tamara pays attention to family-of-origin issues, abandonment concerns, attachment difficulties, and problems that arise in blended households.
She also addresses grief, caregiver stress, co-morbidity, and impulsivity concerns. People who choose Tamara can expect straightforward conversations, practical skills practice, and gentle challenge when needed. Her Louisiana base and long experience shape a grounded, patient approach to change and recovery.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person in the room. The therapist reflects concerns back, helps set goals, and shapes sessions around each person's priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical strategies to interrupt unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be helpful for strong mood swings and impulsivity problems.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Tamara will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before. Together they pick or adapt techniques so sessions stay relevant and clear, and she checks in regularly to adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and skills practice, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging helps with ongoing reminders or short reflections. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on steady, usable progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English
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