About Tamra
Tamra Priestley is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) based in Utah. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, relationship struggles, or the fallout of past trauma. Her work is straightforward and skills-based, aimed at making everyday life feel more manageable.
She aims to help clients build better relationships with themselves first, then with others. Sessions often include practical homework to practice new ways of coping and communicating between meetings.
Background and approach
Tamra also draws on her experience as a life coach to support people working toward personal goals and self-mastery. Her background includes eight years of clinical work across several personal practices and organizational settings. She has supported employees of a company that serves first responders and law enforcement, and has helped older adults facing end-of-life concerns.
These roles broadened her experience with grief, burnout, and compassion fatigue. Tamra describes personal experience with anxiety and depression, which she says informs her empathy and problem-solving in sessions. She has also worked with people affected by trauma and abuse, addressing how those events can disrupt motivation, self-esteem, and daily functioning.
She encourages steady, measurable progress rather than quick fixes. Clients can expect a warm but direct approach that blends client-centered conversation with evidence-informed tools. Tamra emphasizes practical exercises, communication skills, and gradual steps toward more peaceful and productive days.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel understood and can find their own answers; online sessions let that conversation continue whether by video or messaging. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings and uses practical exercises to change patterns; CBT works well in video or phone sessions where the therapist can assign and review homework. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills that can be practiced between sessions and reinforced via live chat or text check-ins.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your goals, try approaches that fit your needs, and adjust plans based on what helps you make steady, usable progress. This gives clients room to test tools and keep what works.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when a quick check-in or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, homework review, or support between sessions. Together these options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions into real schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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