About Tara
Tara Best is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Oklahoma. She draws on a practical, compassionate style to help people manage relationship strain, parenting stresses, mood changes, grief, and life transitions. Tara aims for straightforward conversations and concrete steps people can try between sessions.
She focuses on relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, depression, anxiety, and stress. ADHD is listed among her focus areas, and she brings that into work on organization, attention, and daily routines when relevant.
Background and approach
Her practice also addresses anger, intimacy challenges, self-esteem, and career-related stress. Her clinical tools include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. In sessions she helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns, set realistic goals, and build small skills that add up to real change.
She uses a collaborative tone and keeps language plain so parents can follow along easily. Tara has three years of documented professional experience as an LMFT. She works with a wide range of life issues such as adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, post-traumatic stress, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Practical options for connecting include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Tara uses subscription-based sessions that can be canceled at any time and scheduling follows the service matching process.
How therapeutic approaches meet online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life experiences. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and problems with daily routines like those that can come with attention difficulties. Motivational Interviewing is a brief, collaborative style that helps people find their own reasons to change and build small, achievable goals when motivation feels low.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Tara will talk with each person about their goals, history, and what feels most useful. She uses the session to try methods, see what helps, and adapt the plan based on feedback so clients stay involved in decisions about therapy.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversations when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a check-in fits a short break. Live chat and text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, homework support, or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy family and work schedules while using the chosen approaches.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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