About Tarrah
Tarrah Grady is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 17 years of clinical experience. She draws on practical therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and relationship struggles. Tarrah is based in Missouri and offers online care in English, including services for international clients.
Tarrah combines straightforward talk with focused techniques. She uses cognitive behavioral methods to spot patterns that keep problems going. Mindfulness and acceptance strategies help people live with difficult feelings while choosing actions that match their values.
Background and approach
She has worked in hospitals, clinics, inpatient addiction treatment, prisons, schools, and suicide intervention organizations. That range of settings gives her experience with crisis work, group facilitation, and one-on-one counseling. Her background also includes work related to trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, sleep problems, and compassion fatigue.
Tarrah’s style is warm and interactive. Sessions tend to be practical and goal-oriented, with space to process emotions. She aims to treat people with respect, compassion, and without judgment while helping them move toward clearer goals.
She holds a Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis and an undergraduate degree in social work from the University of Central Missouri. As an LCSW licensed in Missouri, Tarrah blends evidence-informed approaches to address issues like phobias, ADHD, bipolar concerns, body image, and intimacy-related struggles.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care
Tarrah uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this method is often useful for anxiety, phobias, depression, and sleep problems. She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, which teaches skills to accept difficult feelings while clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them. When trauma memories are central, she may use eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to help reduce the intensity of distressing memories.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Tarrah will work with each person to match methods to their goals, symptoms, and preferences. Together they set priorities and try techniques that fit the person’s pace and needs.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, coping reminders, and ongoing contact between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still using the same therapeutic methods listed above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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