About Tara
Tara Best is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Oklahoma. She brings a calm, straightforward style and focuses on practical steps families and individuals can use to feel steadier. Her work centers on helping people manage relationships, trauma, parenting challenges, and mood concerns.
With three years of documented experience, Tara uses structured approaches to help clients change unhelpful patterns. She often combines cognitive behavioral ideas with solution-focused problem solving to set clear goals and small actions.
How Tara works
Motivational interviewing shapes conversations about change and keeps momentum moving forward. Her focus areas include relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, depression, anxiety, grief, and ADHD. She also pays attention to issues such as abandonment, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and post-traumatic stress.
Tara helps people address communication problems, commitment or intimacy worries, anger and low self-esteem, and life transitions. Sessions emphasize practical tools and concrete steps that fit everyday life. Clients work on identifying specific thoughts and behaviors to shift, trying small experiments, and building skills that reduce stress and improve connection.
The pace and goals are tailored to each person’s situation. Tara works with English-speaking clients and accepts international clients. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit their timing.
Tara lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Tara works with
The areas below are the ones Tara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Tara’s approaches work in online sessions
CBT helps people notice thoughts and behaviors that get in the way and then try small, practical changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and problems with focus or routine.Solution-Focused Therapy focuses on clear goals and the next small steps toward them. Sessions often identify strengths and tiny experiments clients can try between meetings to build momentum.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Tara will talk with clients about their goals and preferences, try techniques, and adjust the plan together so it fits the person’s life and needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical access. Video calls let people work face-to-face when seeing expressions and body language matters. Phone sessions are useful when internet bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief updates, daily coaching, or quick problem-solving into a busy schedule. These options let clients shape therapy around work, school, caregiving, and other commitments.
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