About Tamara
Tamara Spears helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, addiction, relationship struggles, grief, and trauma. She also supports concerns about self-esteem, career questions, intimacy, eating and sleeping, parenting strain, and mood changes. Tamara brings calm and steady guidance to difficult moments.
She uses a straightforward, person-centered style. Sessions focus on practical steps, skills practice, and honest conversation. Tamara listens first and then helps clients set clear, manageable goals.
Her work draws on a mix of approaches including cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical skills, acceptance-based work, and attachment-focused thinking.
How Tamara works
These methods are used to reduce distress, improve communication, and build stronger coping tools. Tamara adapts tools to fit each person's life rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all plan. Tamara has 25 years of experience in social services and clinical work.
She holds a Master of Social Work and is licensed as an LMSW in Michigan. That background shapes a practical focus on problem solving and real-world supports. Sessions examine patterns that keep problems stuck and teach ways to change them.
Expect a respectful, nonjudgmental tone and collaborative planning. Tamara aims to help people find clearer direction, steadier moods, and better ways to handle daily stressors. People who want straightforward, skill-based help and a therapist who listens will find a steady guide in Tamara.
She works with each person to match tools to goals and life demands.
Tamara lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How Tamara’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and values, then take small actions that match what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which helps with mood, anxiety, and sleep. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how relationships shape feelings and expectations, and it helps people shift patterns that cause conflict or isolation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which tools to try first, adjust methods over time, and keep goals practical and measurable. Clients and therapist check in together about what is helping and what needs to change.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and skills practice; phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited; chat and messaging allow brief check-ins or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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