About Tara
Tara Best is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Oklahoma. She brings a compassionate, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, and relationship concerns. She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone is unsure about making changes, and solution-focused techniques are used to build clear, achievable steps toward goals.
Background and approach
Trauma-focused work is used when past events are getting in the way of daily life. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including parenting strain, grief, depression, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, and work-related compassion fatigue.
Tara helps people sort through communication problems, commitment worries, and financial stress as they affect relationships and daily functioning. With three years of experience as an LMFT, she approaches sessions with respect and hope. She aims to meet people where they are and to set small, doable goals.
The focus is on practical steps that can fit into busy lives and create real change. People who choose her can expect a collaborative process. Sessions involve talking through current problems, learning simple skills, and tracking progress.
The emphasis is on steady, manageable improvement rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Many of Tara's sessions use cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms. Motivational interviewing is another approach she uses to help people clarify their goals and find the motivation to take practical next steps. Both approaches translate well to remote sessions and aim for concrete, doable changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and the problems they want to address. Treatment plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what feels manageable.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing support between meetings. These formats offer flexibility for busy schedules and different communication preferences.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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