About Tara
Dr. Tara Harvey is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addictions. She works with adults on relationship challenges, grief, self-esteem, career concerns, and life transitions.
Tara practices from Tennessee and conducts sessions in English. Her style is warm and practical. She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals.
Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings, like coping tools for anxiety, emotion regulation techniques, and ways to improve communication.
Background and approach
Tara draws on several approaches to match each person’s needs. She often uses cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses client-centered methods to build trust and a collaborative working relationship.
When deeper patterns matter, she brings in psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences shape current reactions. For people struggling with intense emotions or self-harm urges, she uses techniques from dialectical behavior therapy to teach distress tolerance and emotion regulation. Her practical emphasis means clients leave with steps to try between sessions.
Tara encourages gradual progress and checks in on how tools are working. She also supports people dealing with identity issues, caregiving stress, chronic health challenges, and ADHD-related difficulties. To begin, people choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on the therapist’s availability.
Fees vary with location and the service uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How these approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. The therapist listens closely and helps clients name their goals so sessions feel collaborative and personalized. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches clear skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk about each option, try techniques in session, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process lets clients test tools and refine the focus as needs and goals evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy more flexible. Video works well for a full session with visual cues. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging suit quick touchpoints, coping check-ins, or continuing a skill between sessions. These options help fit therapy into work days, caregiving schedules, or busy routines while keeping the same therapeutic methods and goals intact.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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