About Tamara
Tamara Coleman is a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia with three years of professional experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and ADHD. She aims to make the first step easier by offering steady support and a calm presence. Her style is warm and straightforward, focused on practical change and clearer thinking.
She creates a nonjudgmental space where clients can speak openly about their thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to what a person needs right now. Tamara listens for strengths and builds small, doable steps toward improvement. Tamara uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help someone spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors.
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and on client-centered approaches to keep the work grounded in each person's experience. These methods are adapted to fit individual needs. She also attends to life changes, relationship concerns, grief, trauma, and identity issues for LGBT clients.
Tamara brings practical strategies for motivation, coping, and managing mood swings while respecting each person's pace. People meet her for short-term problem solving or longer work on patterns that keep repeating. Her focus is on clear goals, steady progress, and teaching skills people can use outside sessions.
Practical approaches for online therapy and skill-building
Client-centered therapy starts from the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes understanding a person's experience and following their pace to set helpful goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to change mood and stress responses. Dialectical behavior therapy adds concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss different methods and collaborate with clients to choose what fits their needs and goals. That choice can change over time as progress and priorities shift, and sessions are adjusted to match what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Text and chat allow brief check-ins, written reminders of skills, and support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while focusing on practical coping and behavior change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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