About Tamara
Tamara Thompson offers straightforward, compassionate support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and addiction concerns. She focuses on helping individuals talk through painful moments, build coping skills, and find clearer steps forward. Tamara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and brings 28 years of practice to each conversation.
She creates a calm, non-judgmental space where people can say what they are feeling without being corrected.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be practical and focused - identifying one or two manageable goals and working toward them week by week. Tamara listens for patterns and helps people try clearer ways of thinking and behaving. Her approach draws on client-centered care and evidence-informed tools.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices are used to reduce overwhelm and improve emotional control. Tamara also uses motivational interviewing to help people who feel stuck or unsure about change.
She supports those coping with family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment and abandonment worries, caregiver stress, and complex mood or impulsivity issues. Intellectual disability and co-morbidity are included among areas she has addressed. Tamara sees clients in Louisiana and conducts sessions in English.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Tamara commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in her online work. Client-Centered Therapy means listening closely and helping the person lead the direction of sessions, which is useful when someone needs a calm space to talk and be heard. CBT focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is practical for anxiety, depression, and many daily struggles. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Tamara will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide whether to focus on skills training, thought work, mindfulness practice, or a mix of methods that fit the client’s needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, and live chat or text messaging allow for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent momentum while working toward the changes someone wants.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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