About Tara
Dr. Tara Harvey is an LPC who practices in Tennessee and brings 20 years of experience to her work. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, anger, depression, relationship and intimacy challenges, and grief.
She also supports concerns like parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is straightforward and focused on what helps most. She uses client-centered methods and practical therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
How Tara works
Sessions aim to clarify goals, build coping skills, and reduce symptoms so daily life feels more manageable. Dr. Harvey draws on a long career in varied mental health settings and in teaching.
That background influences a flexible style that mixes skills training with deeper reflection when needed. She explains ideas in plain language and works at a pace people can manage. People can expect a collaborative process that considers thoughts, emotions, and behavior.
Treatment plans are tailored to each person's history and current needs. The focus is on simple, usable strategies that fit a busy life. Therapy can address specific problems like addiction or bipolar mood swings, or broader goals such as improved self-esteem and better communication.
Dr. Harvey helps people identify small changes that add up to real, sustainable progress.
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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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful, accepting relationship and helping people find their own solutions. It is useful for people who want a supportive space to make decisions and explore feelings.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful thinking and reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, blends skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships. It can help people who struggle with mood swings, strong reactions, or impulsive behaviors.
Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and try methods that match those needs. Plans can change as progress is made and new priorities appear.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is useful for a full session with visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep steady momentum toward goals.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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