About Tamara
Tamara Banks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years in the counseling field. She brings calm, direct support to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Tamara works from West Virginia and conducts sessions in English. She combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools and solution-focused strategies. That means sessions often start with what matters most to the person and move toward small, achievable changes.
How Tamara works
She also uses trauma-focused methods when past hurts are affecting daily life. Tamara has experience helping people navigate parenting issues, family conflict, addictions, eating concerns, anger, self-esteem problems, and major life transitions. She also addresses more specific topics such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, and body image.
Her background includes supporting people with mood concerns such as bipolar disorder and co-occurring problems. In sessions she aims to be compassionate and straightforward. Conversations are practical and goal-oriented, with room to talk through feelings and try new ways of coping.
She believes finding a good match between therapist and person matters for progress. Her training and work history include roles in schools and higher education. Tamara draws on many years of hands-on experience to shape flexible plans that fit daily life and responsibilities.
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What Tamara works with
The areas below are the ones Tamara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | West Virginia |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting connection. Online sessions using this approach start by identifying what matters most to the person and following their pace, which helps shape the goals for work together.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. In remote sessions CBT often includes clear steps to try between meetings, such as tracking patterns, testing new behaviors, and practicing different ways of thinking to reduce anxiety or depression.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and the therapist will help with that choice. Tamara collaborates with each person to align approaches to their needs, goals, and preferences so the plan can be adjusted over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and hold deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, short updates, or help between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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