About Tamara
Tamara Thompson offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and parenting strain. She aims to make sessions easy to follow and focused on real-life changes. Tamara speaks plainly and creates space for clients to talk through what matters most to them.
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of experience. Tamara uses approaches that help people notice patterns, build coping skills, and try small changes between sessions.
How Tamara works
Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, bipolar concerns, and intimacy-related issues. Tamara also addresses family-of-origin issues, adoption and foster care questions, attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family stress, caregiver strain, and co-morbidity. She helps people with communication problems, codependency, impulsivity, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and intellectual disability related challenges.
Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer choices. Her style draws from client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s goals, cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotional regulation. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are used to increase awareness and strengthen motivation for change.
People who prefer straightforward guidance and skill-building may find her approach useful. Tamara practices in Louisiana and conducts sessions in English. She offers multiple ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
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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
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and priorities. The therapist listens without judgment and helps shape sessions around what the person wants to change or understand. This approach is useful for building trust and deciding practical next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings. It breaks down problems into concrete parts and teaches skills to test and change unhelpful thinking. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and many day-to-day difficulties.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. It offers straightforward tools for managing intense feelings and improving communication in stressful moments.
Deciding which approach fits best is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match the client's needs, and adjust plans based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to focus on useful skills and clear next steps.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people talk face to face, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and messaging can keep continuity between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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