About Tamara
Tamara Sinclair is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin who uses a person-centered approach to help people facing anxiety and other life stresses. She keeps sessions warm and interactive and focuses on practical steps people can use between meetings. Tamara emphasizes respect and compassion while avoiding stigmatizing labels.
With five years of experience, she draws on methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to address mood concerns, relationship strain, parenting stress, and trauma.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with addiction, bipolar symptoms, depression, and major life transitions. Tamara works with issues related to intimacy, LGBT concerns, and sexual diversity including BDSM and kink topics. Her sessions often include short, goal-focused work alongside deeper conversations about values and identity.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used to help people clarify goals and find small changes that lead to relief. Mindfulness practices are introduced to reduce reactivity and improve present-moment coping. Tamara adapts her approach to what each person needs.
She listens first, then builds a plan together that may combine skills practice, strategy, and reflective work. This helps people manage stress, improve communication, and rebuild confidence after setback. People typically come for help with career questions, family tensions, caregiving stress, or challenges like money worries and midlife concerns.
Tamara guides practical steps toward change while holding space for the emotions that come up during the process.
Approaches for online anxiety and life-work balance
Tamara commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based strategies when working online. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and help people notice thoughts without getting swept up by them.She also draws on client-centered principles that prioritize the person’s own goals and values. That means she listens first and helps shape a plan together rather than prescribing a fixed path. Together a person and the therapist decide which combination of approaches fits best for symptoms, life demands, and personal style.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for in-depth conversations and skill demonstrations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives, work from different locations in Wisconsin, and try formats that match their comfort and schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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