About Tamara
Tamara Spears is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 25 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She offers steady support for concerns like self-esteem, career strain, grief, addiction, and mood disorders. Her approach is caring and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel usable and relevant to daily life.
Tamara draws on a person-centered style that values respect and sensitivity. Sessions are conversational and interactive.
Background and approach
She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on the person rather than a diagnosis. She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral work and dialectical behavior ideas to help people manage strong emotions and change unhelpful patterns. Tamara also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused ideas to help clarify values and strengthen relationships with self and others.
In sessions she combines short-term problem solving with attention to longer-term patterns that cause recurring stress. That might mean setting small goals, practicing new coping skills, or looking at past wounds that affect current behavior. The plan is shaped to fit each person’s needs and priorities.
Tamara offers online options from her Michigan base, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. She aims to be a steady guide while people make changes at their own pace.
How Tamara’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them even when difficult thoughts or feelings arise. It can help with anxiety, stress, and motivation by teaching ways to act that match what matters to someone. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete techniques to change them, which is often useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, helpful for strong mood swings, anger, or impulsivity.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as needed. That teamwork helps identify what methods fit your preferences and what actually helps in day-to-day life.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people share updates between appointments. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep consistent momentum toward change.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Tamara help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much experience does she have?
What credentials and location are listed?
Which languages are used in sessions?
What session formats are available?
How are costs handled for sessions?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.