About Tamara
Tamara Trent, LCSW, brings 13 years of experience helping people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship strain. She works with people dealing with phobias, addiction, grief, and parenting stress. Her manner is calm and straightforward.
She aims to make therapy feel practical and usable. Tamara uses clear, step-by-step methods to help people manage distressing thoughts and reactions. She combines cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-based practices to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful action.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill-building for stress, sleep, and coping with change. She places attention on attachment patterns and how early relationships shape current struggles. This helps people understand why they react the way they do in relationships and intimacy.
Tamara also uses client-centered listening so people feel heard while they try new ways of responding. Tamara has worked in Texas settings for over a decade and holds an LCSW, which is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her background includes helping people with complex, overlapping issues like chronic illness, caregiver stress, and co-morbid mental health conditions.
Her style is collaborative and direct. She helps people set small, achievable goals and checks progress each week. Sessions may include talk, exercises, and short at-home practices to reinforce what was learned.
People come to Tamara looking to improve communication, reduce panic or avoidance, and rebuild confidence after setbacks. She supports exploration of identity and coping strategies for life transitions. Her approach balances practical tools with attention to emotional meaning.
Approaches used in online therapy and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values. This can be useful for phobias, anxiety, and life changes where avoidance has grown. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with small behavioral experiments; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relational patterns and how past connections influence current relationships, which can help with intimacy, communication, and grief. Tamara treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will work with each person to try methods that fit their goals and preferences, adjusting strategies if something does not feel helpful. The plan evolves from what a person needs and what works in their daily life. Online therapy makes it easier to weave sessions into busy weeks. Video calls let people use visual cues for relational work, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins, and different levels of engagement while using ACT, CBT, or attachment-focused work.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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