About Tamara
Tamara Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress and anxiety and other life challenges. Tamara aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what matters most to them.
Her sessions are client-centered and practical. She listens first, then helps build steps that fit everyday life. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and to try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness strategies and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are used to manage strong emotions and reduce overwhelm. Tamara has worked in a range of settings across Louisiana. Her long experience includes supporting people through grief, addiction concerns, relationship problems, parenting strain, and identity or attachment questions.
She also supports people living with mood conditions and attention differences and helps them cope with life changes. People who come to her typically want straightforward tools and honest conversation. Sessions can include short skills practice, goal-setting, and problem-solving between visits.
Tamara uses motivational interviewing when people want help making lasting changes and staying motivated. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. She speaks English and provides care through a variety of online session options.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on availability.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a treatment plan that fits each person's values and goals. It helps people feel heard and guides the work toward practical changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. It offers concrete exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which works well in short skill-focused online sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, provides tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These skills can be practiced in between online meetings and reviewed over phone or message check-ins.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will review needs, goals, and preferences with the client and suggest which methods to try first. Plans can be adjusted as progress is made, with the client guiding the pace and focus.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls let you work face-to-face when depth is needed. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit brief coaching into a work break. These options help make consistent care more manageable for many people.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English
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