About Tamara
Tamara York is a licensed social worker in Kansas with 30 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, address parenting concerns, and improve focus and concentration related to ADHD. She aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can speak honestly about what matters to them.
Her work often involves practical problem solving. She can help parents navigate school-related issues and communicate with educators.
Background and approach
Sessions include straightforward conversations about what’s working, what’s not, and small changes to try between meetings. Tamara draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her work. She helps people build skills for coping with panic, obsessive thoughts, grief, anger, and low self-esteem.
She also supports those facing life transitions, compassion fatigue, and addiction-related concerns. Additional areas she addresses include adoption and foster care questions, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication problems. She has experience with a wide range of relationship and family problems and with people coping after trauma and abuse.
Sessions are offered in English and Tamara is available to work with international clients. She uses common online formats so people can access care in ways that fit their schedules. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she focuses on steady, practical support as clients move forward.
How Tamara Uses Practical Approaches Online
Tamara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions in ways that are easy to follow. One common approach focuses on skills training for managing anxiety and panic - teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step coping strategies to reduce acute symptoms. Another approach emphasizes problem solving and behavioral strategies for parenting and ADHD-related focus issues - breaking tasks into smaller parts and building routines that support attention and memory.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist listens to your goals, reviews what has helped before, and suggests methods to try together. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked so the plan stays practical and aligned with your needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins or brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, school pickups, or other daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- ADHD
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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