About Tara
Dr. Tara Harvey is an LPC who brings 20 years of counseling experience in Tennessee. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and ADHD.
She listens without judgment and aims to make therapy practical and clear for everyday life. Her approach balances emotional understanding with concrete skills. Sessions mix client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
This means clients talk through painful memories, learn ways to manage difficult thoughts, and practice new coping skills between sessions.
Background and approach
Dr. Harvey draws on long experience in varied mental health settings and in teaching. That background helps her tailor sessions to each person's goals and life situation.
She pays attention to how past experiences shape current struggles and to strengths that can be built on. People often come with relationship stress, grief, sleep and eating issues, or struggles with self-esteem and career changes. Dr.
Harvey also works with concerns such as compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, and intimacy-related problems. She helps people set realistic steps and track small wins. Therapy begins with a short conversation about needs and priorities.
From there she and the client agree on a plan - combining talk, practical exercises, and coaching-style support as needed. Sessions are offered by video, phone, chat, or messaging to fit different schedules.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding your perspective and building on your strengths. Online sessions using this approach give you space to talk through worries while the therapist mirrors concerns and asks questions to clarify what matters most.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. In remote sessions this often looks like practical exercises, thought records, and step-by-step plans to tackle anxiety, sleep problems, or ADHD-related challenges between meetings.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. It can be used in short practical coaching moments during video or text check-ins and reinforced with exercises you can practice on your own.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Adjustments are made as you go so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face work when detailed conversation is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when less bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when journaling through thoughts feels helpful. These options make it simpler to keep momentum between appointments and to fit care into a schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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