About Tara
Tara Seay is a Licensed Professional Counselor - Mental Health Service Provider with 11 years of clinical experience in Tennessee. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood shifts, and big life changes. Tara aims to make the first steps feel less daunting and more manageable for anyone reaching out.
Her approach centers on creating a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can name what they are feeling.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear, practical steps people can use between meetings. She listens for patterns that keep problems cycling and works with clients to try different ways of responding. Tara also supports people facing family-related stress such as blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and caregiving strain.
She addresses attachment difficulties, abandonment worries, and relationship control or commitment problems. Chronic illness, body image, and recovery from large-scale disasters are included in her scope of concerns. Clients can expect straightforward conversation and collaborative planning.
Tara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide the work rather than long lectures. Progress often looks like small, steady changes in daily routines and thinking patterns. Her practice offers multiple ways to connect including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
Sessions are scheduled to align with each person’s needs and life demands.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Tara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people change unhelpful patterns and manage symptoms more effectively. One common approach she uses helps clients spot and shift the thought and behavior patterns that keep anxiety and depression active, offering practical exercises people can try between sessions. Another approach centers on building coping skills for stress and mood regulation, teaching breath, grounding, and activity-based strategies to reduce intensity and improve daily functioning.Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process. Tara works together with each person to choose or adapt methods based on their goals, tolerance for different techniques, and daily life needs. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans so the work stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow sessions to fit around work, school, and caregiving. Video is useful for more in-depth conversations and seeing nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can support quick check-ins or ongoing reflection. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while managing a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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