About Taryn
Taryn Crockerham is a licensed marriage and family therapist who brings 17 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with depression, and navigate relationship and parenting concerns. Her approach is calm and straightforward, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
She creates a warm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through difficult feelings and painful experiences.
Background and approach
Taryn listens carefully and matches conversation to each person's pace. She encourages practical steps that people can try between sessions. Taryn uses a mix of methods to meet different needs.
She draws on client-centered work to follow what matters most to the person in front of her. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop new coping skills. When trauma or abuse is part of the story, she focuses on safety and steady pacing so people do not feel overwhelmed.
For relationship concerns she helps clients name patterns and try small changes that can improve connection. For parenting strains she helps parents find clearer boundaries and more predictable routines. Taryn also works with issues such as obsessive-compulsive concerns, postpartum depression, immigration and multicultural stresses, aging and geriatric questions, and non-monogamous relationship dynamics.
She offers straightforward guidance and collaborates with each person to set realistic goals.
How Taryn’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy means the therapist follows the person's lead and focuses on what matters most to them. This approach helps people feel heard and makes it easier to set goals that feel realistic and relevant.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. In this work clients learn simple tools to test unhelpful thoughts and try different responses to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships through clearer communication and distress-tolerance techniques.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and what feels comfortable. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress continues.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation when video is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging can work well for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when writing out thoughts helps more than speaking them. These options make it simpler to fit care into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Depression
- Immigration issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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