Tamara Trent
Understanding family stress and trauma
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tamara
Tamara Trent is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing family stress, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, and challenges with self-esteem. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps parents and adults can use day to day. Tamara brings 13 years of experience and a calm, steady presence to sessions in Texas and with international clients in English.
Her style is warm and client-centered. She listens first, then gently guides toward new ways of coping.
Background and approach
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy also informs her work, helping people clarify values and act on them. Tamara offers support for a wide range of stresses - parenting pressures, grief, addiction concerns, relationship strain, work burnout, and life transitions.
She addresses issues that often overlap, such as attachment struggles, codependency, and chronic illness impact. Practical skills and small experiments are typical parts of sessions. Sessions may include short exercises, skill practice, and planning steps to try between meetings.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and helps people build routines that fit their daily life. Her goal is steady, realistic progress rather than quick fixes. Tamara holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential - LCSW - and works with clients from Texas and beyond.
Conversations take place in English and can happen through multiple online formats to fit different schedules.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and identify actions that match what matters most. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transition work where values guide small changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and then testing out new ways of responding. It is often used for anxiety, stress, sleep, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication; it can help people who struggle with trust, codependency, or relationship boundaries.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tamara collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan as needed rather than sticking to a single technique.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around parenting, work, or medical needs and allow follow-up between meetings when helpful. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, practice conversations, and set small homework steps that translate into real life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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