About Tamra
Tamra Priestley is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in Utah who helps people struggling with anxiety and stress. She focuses on building better relationships with oneself first, then with others. Tamra aims to teach practical skills people can use between sessions to feel steadier and more capable.
She draws on eight years of clinical work in independent practice and organizational settings. That experience includes support for first responders and law enforcement staff, and work with older adults facing end-of-life concerns.
Background and approach
Her background also includes life coaching focused on self-mastery and relationships. Tamra shares that she has personally recovered from anxiety and depression, and she uses that perspective when supporting others. Sessions often include skill practice, guided conversation, and specific exercises to build confidence and reduce overwhelm.
She encourages homework to help progress continue outside sessions. Many people seek her help for trauma and abuse related concerns that affect motivation, self-worth, and daily functioning. She offers approaches aimed at processing painful experiences and restoring movement in life.
Tamra also supports people dealing with grief, addiction-related struggles, body image and eating issues, career stress, and parenting challenges. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She listens for what matters most and helps people set concrete goals.
Tamra works in English and provides a mix of session formats to fit different needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's lead to build trust and understanding. It helps people who want a supportive space to explore feelings and decide what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical tools to change them. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and situations where clear skill practice helps reduce symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and the issues at hand, and then suggest a plan that can combine approaches. Decisions about methods are made collaboratively and can be adjusted over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility by fitting sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text messaging is useful for shorter check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to keep consistent work toward goals while balancing day-to-day responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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