About Tamra
Tamra Priestley welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, or life transitions. She is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) based in Utah with eight years of clinical experience. Tamra speaks English and offers direct, practical support for everyday problems.
Her style is straightforward and skills-focused. Sessions often include learning tools to manage anxiety, improve communication, and rebuild self-esteem. She also uses coaching techniques to help clients set goals and practice changes between meetings.
How Tamra works
Tamra has worked in independent practice settings and for an employer program serving first responders and law enforcement staff. She has experience supporting people facing end-of-life concerns and complex caregiving roles. Those varied settings shaped her practical approach to common struggles like grief, burnout, and compassion fatigue.
She also brings personal experience with single parenting, adoption and foster care, divorce, and recovery from anxiety and depression. Those life events inform how she helps people process trauma, loss, and long-standing patterns such as codependency or control issues. Tamra encourages homework and real-world practice so progress continues outside sessions.
Her background includes a mix of therapeutic approaches, including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior skills, emotionally-focused ideas, and existential exploration. Tamra aims to help people find meaning, build steady coping skills, and move toward a more peaceful, productive life.
Tamra lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Tamra works with
The areas below are the ones Tamra selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Utah |
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Therapeutic approaches and online support
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist, emphasizing listening, validation, and helping people find their own solutions; it is useful for building self-trust and improving relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down thoughts and behaviors to teach practical strategies for reducing anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions, building distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with anger, impulsivity, and relationship problems.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Tamra works collaboratively to match methods to a client's goals, symptoms, and daily life. She will suggest techniques, check what feels useful, and adjust the plan as progress happens so therapy fits the person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging can work for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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