About Tamara
Tamara Trent is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience helping people navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. She works with individuals on self-esteem, relationship challenges, and stress. Her style is compassionate and straightforward, geared toward practical steps people can use right away.
In sessions she focuses on clear, manageable skills. She listens first to what feels most urgent, then helps set small goals to reduce distress.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to unpack confusing feelings, improve communication, and find routines that support better sleep and eating when those are affected. Tamara draws on several evidence-informed methods to match each person’s needs. She uses techniques that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, commit to values-based action, and repair attachment patterns that get in the way of close relationships.
Therapy is paced to fit each person’s comfort level and goals. Her work also addresses life concerns like parenting stress, career setbacks, chronic health challenges, grief, and addiction-related struggles. She helps people build coping strategies for anger, avoidance, and dissociation, and she offers coaching-style support for making concrete changes.
Sessions are offered from her Texas practice and conducted in English. Tamara welcomes clients who want pragmatic, compassionate help to reduce anxiety, manage symptoms, and move toward a more fulfilling daily life.
Therapeutic approaches suited for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values even when anxiety or difficult thoughts appear. It emphasizes actions that build a meaningful life rather than trying to eliminate every unwanted feeling. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors that maintain anxiety and depression; it often uses practical exercises and homework to track progress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns in connections and trust, and it helps people practice new ways of relating and communicating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to the client’s goals, current challenges, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. This is a collaborative process and techniques can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when tone and expression matter. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when a low-bandwidth option is needed. Live chat and messaging provide brief check-ins, follow-up support, or a way to process between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent care and to keep practicing skills in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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