About Tamara
Tamara Trent is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship strain, and parenting stress. She brings 13 years of experience and aims to offer steady, practical support for everyday struggles. Tamara works with concerns like self-esteem, grief, addiction, ADHD, and coping with major life changes.
Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions focus on small, useful steps that fit into busy lives. She listens for patterns that cause pain and helps people try new ways of handling difficult feelings and situations.
Background and approach
Tamara uses a mix of tools that suit each person. She may help clients notice unhelpful thoughts, build new routines, or practice mindful acceptance when emotions feel overwhelming. Work often includes improving communication and setting boundaries in close relationships.
She draws on experience across many issues such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, body image and attachment concerns. This background helps when problems overlap, like anxiety with sleep or grief with relationship strain. Tamara aims to make therapy practical and relatable.
Based in Texas, Tamara blends direct guidance with a client-centered approach. She helps people set clear goals, track small changes, and find meaning in everyday life. The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that bring life more meaning, which can help with depression, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches specific skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, sleep and eating issues, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy centers on how early relationships shape current bonds and communication. It helps people improve closeness, trust, and boundary setting in relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Tamara works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals and preferences. She checks in on what’s working and adjusts techniques so sessions stay practical and relevant to daily life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets you work face to face; phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited; chat or text works well for quick check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still using ACT, CBT, or attachment-focused work effectively.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English