About Tara
Tara Lineberry is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Virginia. She brings ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship concerns. Tara aims to build trust quickly and offers a warm, nonjudgmental way of talking through hard experiences.
She focuses on trauma, domestic violence, addiction, eating and body image issues, and self-esteem. Tara also supports people dealing with parenting pressures, compassion fatigue, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses attachment and abandonment themes along with family of origin and blended family challenges. Tara draws on practical methods from cognitive behavioral therapy, emotionally-focused approaches, EMDR, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She prefers simple, concrete steps clients can try between sessions and emphasizes finding strengths to rely on in hard moments.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Her counseling style is open, caring, and respectful. People meet where they are and can expect a steady, listening presence.
Tara values a clear therapeutic relationship so people can speak honestly about their thoughts and feelings. She works with text-based messaging, live chat, phone sessions, and video calls. Tara accepts international clients and conducts work in English.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to her availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
EMDR helps people revisit and process traumatic memories in a structured way so those memories cause less disruption in daily life. In online sessions this can include guided eye movements or other bilateral stimulation adapted for a remote setting and paced to the person’s comfort.Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It works well for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical skills people can practice between sessions and report back on during video or messaging check-ins.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These exercises are easy to try during a short phone session or as daily practices while checking in by text.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Tara will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then try methods together to find a good fit. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps most.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or helpful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, try brief coaching, and get support between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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