Tara Lineberry
Calm, practical support for difficult life moments
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tara
Tara Lineberry is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a decade of experience. She holds a Master of Arts in social work and practices in Virginia. Tara focuses on practical, down-to-earth therapy aimed at helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, addiction, and other life challenges.
Her style is warm, non-judgmental, and straightforward. She listens first, then helps people sort through thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Tara emphasizes building trust so people can talk openly about what they are facing. She uses a mix of proven methods in sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Emotionally-Focused approaches help with intense feelings and relationship patterns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing addresses trauma symptoms. Tara believes many people already sense what will help them.
Her role is to sit alongside them, point out strengths, and support practical steps forward. She often uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help with clarity and change. She has worked with concerns such as depression, grief, parenting challenges, self-esteem, eating issues, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses attachment and family of origin issues, abandonment, and communication problems. Her background includes supporting people affected by domestic violence and sexual trauma. Tara offers flexible session formats including messaging and scheduled conversations.
Her approach aims to be accessible and adaptable for people juggling busy lives and changing needs.
How Tara’s methods translate to online therapy
Tara often blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR in her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with clear exercises and homework. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing targets distress from past events by processing traumatic memories in a structured way.She also uses Emotionally-Focused ideas and mindfulness to help people notice and name strong feelings, then practice new ways of responding. Choosing the right approach is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together what fits best based on goals and preferences. That process can shift over time as needs change.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video lets people talk face-to-face from home, while messaging and live chat provide shorter, timely check-ins. These options make scheduling more flexible and allow continuing care when travel or daily demands make in-person visits hard.
Across formats, the focus is the same: practical tools, steady support, and attention to strengths so people can move forward from stress, trauma, or life transitions.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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