- Practical coping skills
- Focus on relationships
- Short homework tasks
About Tamra
Tamra Priestley is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in Utah who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. She focuses on helping people build better relationships with themselves and others. Tamra also supports people dealing with grief, parenting strain, addiction, ADHD, body image concerns, and life transitions.
She uses clear, practical work in sessions. Tamra combines client-centered listening with techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach coping skills. She also brings elements of Emotionally-Focused and Existential approaches when exploring meaning and connection.
Tamra draws on eight years of experience in private practice and workplace mental health programs. Her background includes supporting first responders and law enforcement employees and working with older adults on end-of-life issues. Personal experience with single parenting, adoption, divorce, and recovery from anxiety and depression informs her style.
In sessions she offers concrete tools and short homework tasks to keep progress moving between meetings. She aims to help people increase motivation, rebuild self-esteem, and reduce overwhelm. Practical skill-building is balanced with space to process painful memories and loss.
Her work is goal-focused while staying grounded in each person’s story. She encourages people to try small changes that fit their daily life and to notice results over time. To begin, clients follow the site’s Start Therapy flow and complete a brief matching questionnaire.
How Tamra’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy begins with listening closely to what matters to each person and following their pace. It helps people feel heard and guides the work toward goals they choose.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns with concrete exercises. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical coping skills to use day to day.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds emotion regulation and distress-tolerance tools that support people who feel overwhelmed. It offers clear steps and skills for managing intense reactions and improving relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as progress is made.
For session logistics, confirm the therapist’s current online options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use tools and homework between meetings to practice new skills in everyday situations.
Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Tamra commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addictions, parenting strain, body image, ADHD, and related life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style combines attentive, client-centered listening with practical skill teaching from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Sessions focus on both coping skills and personal meaning.
What is her professional background?
She has eight years of experience working in private practices and in workplace programs supporting employees such as first responders. She has also worked with older adults around end-of-life issues.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the UT LCMHC credential and practices in Utah.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients supported?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.