About Tamara
Tamara Gilarski is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience in Florida. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, motivation, and coping with life changes. She encourages people to take the first step toward help and recognizes how hard that can be.
Tamara creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what feels overwhelming. She offers steady support and listens for practical patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.
How Tamara works
Short-term goals and small changes are part of how she helps people move forward. Her approach is straightforward and rooted in methods that are known to work. Tamara helps people build skills for managing intense feelings and improving confidence.
Sessions often focus on real-life strategies that can be used between meetings. She also helps people process difficult experiences like trauma, abandonment, or major life shifts. That work usually combines emotional support with pacing so clients feel able to handle what comes up.
Tamara pays attention to each person’s history and current stressors when planning sessions. Many clients appreciate her steady, practical style and clear guidance. She aims to make therapy feel manageable and relevant to daily life.
If someone wants help sorting out anxiety, changes, or past hurts, Tamara provides an experienced, compassionate presence.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Tamara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and pacing. One common method teaches coping and stress-management skills so people can handle anxiety and day-to-day pressures more effectively. This approach emphasizes practical tools to use between sessions and steadies emotional reactions.Another approach centers on processing trauma and difficult life events in a paced way. Work often combines emotional support with gradual exposure to memories or feelings so clients can build resilience without becoming overwhelmed. This method helps people make sense of past hurt while learning to manage reactions in the present.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Tamara will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels doable, then tailor sessions to match those needs. She collaborates with each person to try methods that fit their pace and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is low, chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect in their own time. These options help fit therapy into work, family, or busy schedules and make it easier to continue care consistently.
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