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Tameka Powell

Supportive care for parents and relationships

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Credentials
LCSW
Experience
5 years
Licensed in
Virginia
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Tameka

Tameka Powell is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical help for parents and people dealing with relationship and emotional challenges. She offers straightforward support for common concerns like depression, anxiety, stress, parenting questions, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. Her tone is warm and direct, aimed at guiding someone who may be worried about taking the first step.

She uses approaches that emphasize connection and skill-building. Attachment-Based Therapy helps look at how early and current relationships shape responses and closeness.

Background and approach

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, addresses unhelpful thoughts and teaches concrete coping strategies. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds practical tools for managing emotions and improving communication. With five years of experience, Tameka has worked in pediatric settings and brings that clinical exposure into conversations about family life and parenting.

She favors a strength-based way of working - noticing what already helps and building from there. Sessions are intended to be nonjudgmental and focused on real-life problems and solutions. Clients can expect a collaborative partnership.

Tameka talks through goals, offers concrete skills, and adapts strategies to what fits a family’s routine. She also brings attention to postpartum depression when relevant and tailors care around that period. Tameka is licensed in Virginia as an LCSW.

She offers sessions in English using formats such as video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Starting involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the service's Start Therapy flow.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. It focuses on building safety and trust in relationships and can help with parenting concerns and intimacy issues.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with practical strategies. It is useful for symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress and teaches clear skills to try between sessions.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers tools for managing intense emotions and improving communication. It emphasizes skill practice, which can be helpful for anger, emotional regulation, and coping under pressure.

Tameka approaches choosing a method as a team effort. She will listen to goals and preferences, try approaches that match the situation, and adjust techniques based on what is working. The process is collaborative and focused on real-life changes.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging gives flexibility for busy families. These formats let people fit short skill work or longer conversations into their week and keep a steady connection when in-person options are difficult. Licensed professionals can use these tools to teach coping skills, review progress, and support changes between contacts.

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.

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.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address?
Tameka works with issues like relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, parenting questions, depression, anxiety, stress, grief, intimacy concerns, anger, self esteem, career coaching, ADHD, and postpartum depression.
What style of therapy does she use?
She draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to combine relationship-focused work with practical coping skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Tameka has five years of professional experience, including work in pediatric settings that informs her approach to family and parenting topics.
What are her credentials and location?
She is licensed as an LCSW in Virginia with license number VA LCSW 0904013913.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are fees and payment handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

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Experience
5 years
Licensed
Virginia
Languages
English

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