About Tarrah
Tarrah Grady is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship concerns. She draws on 17 years of clinical experience to offer steady guidance and clear steps during hard moments.
Her manner is warm and engaged, and she works with people across a range of life challenges in Missouri and beyond. She brings experience from hospitals, clinics, inpatient addiction treatment, prisons, schools, and suicide intervention settings.
Background and approach
That background means she is used to fast-changing situations and to helping people regain stability after crisis. She also has experience facilitating groups and doing brief, focused interventions when time is limited. Tarrah uses several practical therapy methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.
In a session she will listen closely, check what matters most to the client, and introduce tools that can be practiced between meetings. Her approach emphasizes respect, compassion, and nonjudgment. She helps clients set realistic goals and build small habits that add up to change.
Sessions are interactive and focused on applying useful skills to everyday situations. Tarrah’s background in social work includes an undergraduate degree from the University of Central Missouri and a master’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
She holds a Missouri LCSW (MO LCSW 2010001105) and offers sessions in English, including options for international clients.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like depression and anxiety. It often uses straightforward exercises and homework to build new habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tarrah collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences. Together they try techniques, see what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual connection helps. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a short break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, day-to-day coping, or when writing is easier than speaking. These formats add flexibility and make it easier to keep regular contact while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English