About Tamara
Tamara Clark is a licensed professional counselor with 26 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and bipolar disorder. She speaks directly and calmly, guiding clients through practical steps rather than jargon. Tamara encourages people to notice their own strengths and to use those strengths when facing painful or confusing moments.
Her work often focuses on symptom management and coping strategies that fit into daily life.
Background and approach
She has experience using Exposure Response Prevention for obsessive compulsive disorder and draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape sessions. Tamara aims to make therapy feel useful from the first visit. Sessions with Tamara are collaborative.
She listens to each person’s story, helps identify priorities, and builds small, concrete goals. Progress is tracked in ways that make sense to the client, such as reducing panic episodes or managing urges related to addiction. She also addresses issues that commonly underlie symptoms, like communication problems, control struggles, guilt and shame, and uncertainty about life purpose.
Tamara helps people develop clearer routines and coping tools to handle intense emotions and setbacks. Practical supports are part of the process. Tamara can suggest techniques for calming anxiety, managing mood swings, and responding differently to triggers from past trauma.
She emphasizes gradual steps so change feels achievable.
Approaches that guide online work and practical access
Tamara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person’s needs. One notable method she uses is Exposure Response Prevention, which helps people with obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors by gradually facing feared situations and learning not to perform the compulsive response. This can reduce avoidance and lessen the power of obsessive urges over time.She also applies structured, evidence-based strategies for mood and anxiety concerns. These techniques include teaching coping skills for panic attacks and stepwise plans to manage depressive episodes and addiction-related urges. Each method focuses on concrete skills you can practice between sessions to see steady progress.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your history, goals, and daily life and then recommend methods that fit your needs and preferences. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress and feedback emerge.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how you meet. Video calls let you work face-to-face even from a distance, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins during a busy day, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection and brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into real life while using approaches focused on measurable change.
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- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English