About Tarrah
Tarrah Grady is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Missouri with 17 years of clinical experience. She brings a direct, compassionate style and focuses on helping people move through stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship challenges. Tarrah aims to make therapy approachable and practical for everyday life.
She uses several evidence-based approaches to tailor care to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
How Tarrah works
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation and coping under pressure. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be used for trauma and abuse-related memories. Tarrah's background includes work in hospitals, clinics, inpatient addiction treatment, prisons, schools, and suicide intervention organizations.
That variety has shaped a flexible, problem-solving approach to common crises and life transitions. She has experience counseling individuals, facilitating groups, and responding to crisis situations. Her sessions are warm, engaging, and interactive.
She emphasizes respect, compassion, and a nonjudgmental tone while helping people set and reach realistic goals. Expect straightforward conversation and practical tools you can try between sessions. Tarrah supports people dealing with a wide range of concerns including depression, bipolar disorder, sleep problems, parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, career challenges, ADHD, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses adoption and foster care matters, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, body image, and related topics.
Tarrah lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Tarrah works with
The areas below are the ones Tarrah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care
Tarrah uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and everyday stress by breaking issues into concrete steps.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to teach practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. DBT offers tools for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clear communication that can help during intense moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tarrah collaborates with each person to choose methods that match goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from wherever they are. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a voice check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, homework discussion, and ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and travel schedules while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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