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Online therapist

Tamara Banks

Compassionate, practical support for families

Credentials
LPC
Experience
22 years
Licensed in
West Virginia
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Tamara

Tamara Banks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with more than two decades in the counseling field. She speaks plainly and works to create a direct, compassionate space for parents and families facing everyday struggles. Tamara focuses on practical steps that can ease stress, improve relationships, and help family members manage grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges.

She brings 22 years of experience supporting school-aged children through adulthood. That background informs how she helps parents cope with blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and communication problems.

Background and approach

Her work includes addressing addiction, eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Tamara uses approaches such as Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She adapts those approaches to each family’s situation, focusing on clear goals and concrete skills rather than jargon.

Sessions usually include straightforward discussion, practical strategies, and steps to try between meetings. Based in West Virginia, Tamara combines clinical practice with roles in education. She describes herself as caring and straightforward, and she encourages families to take the first step when they are ready.

Therapy is scheduled around her commitments so families can find times that fit their routines. For parents wanting a focused, practical approach to family and parenting concerns, Tamara offers attentive support rooted in long experience and an emphasis on usable tools.

How Tamara’s Approaches Work Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects feelings, and helps families clarify what matters most. This approach is useful for parents who need a supportive space to talk through tough decisions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions include practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and to try new behavior patterns. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, anger, and many parenting stressors.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that fit the family’s needs. That collaborative decision makes it easier to focus on clear goals and steps between sessions.

Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide shorter check-ins or support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school and work schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Solution-Focused Therapy

Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Tamara help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, family and parenting issues, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, relationships, grief, eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, career challenges, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.
What therapy styles does she use?
Tamara uses Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy to tailor sessions to each client’s needs.
How much experience does she have?
She has 22 years of experience in counseling and has worked with clients from school age through adulthood on a variety of issues.
Where is she licensed and what is her credential?
Tamara practices in West Virginia and holds the credential LPC with licence WV LPC 1642.
In which language are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I need to do to begin?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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