About Tamara
Tamara Sinclair is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin who uses a client-centered way of working. She focuses on helping people who are coping with depression, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, and challenges around parenting and career decisions. Tamara brings five years of clinical experience to sessions and aims to make therapy straightforward and respectful.
Her sessions are warm and interactive. She listens first, then helps people set clear, doable goals.
Background and approach
Tamara avoids stigmatizing labels and concentrates on practical steps that fit each person's life and values. She draws from cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness to help people change unhelpful thought patterns and to build emotional resilience. Motivational interviewing supports people who want to make a change but feel stuck.
Solution-focused techniques are used for setting short-term goals and tracking progress. Tamara also works with people affected by trauma and abuse, and she addresses issues such as addiction, self-esteem, and stress management. She is familiar with concerns related to gender dysphoria, LGBT issues, and alternative sexual cultures including BDSM and kink, and she approaches these topics without judgment.
In a typical session Tamara helps people break problems into manageable steps. She also helps explore values, improve communication, and plan practical coping strategies. Her aim is to help people move toward clearer decisions and a more manageable daily life.
How Tamara’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy begins by focusing on what matters to the person in front of the screen. The therapist listens with empathy, reflects what she hears, and helps people set goals that feel right for them. This approach is useful for building trust and clarifying goals when someone is facing identity, relationship, or parenting questions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. Online CBT sessions often include identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying small behavior changes, and tracking results between meetings. This approach helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by giving practical tools to change daily patterns.
Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Tamara will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they can adjust techniques over time to find what helps most.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction; phone sessions work well when video is not possible or bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, shorter touchpoints between full sessions, and different ways to communicate based on comfort and situation.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English