About Tamra
Tamra Dewbre is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Texas. She brings 12 years of experience helping people facing relationship struggles, trauma, intimacy concerns, and parenting challenges. Her work also includes coaching and support around complex sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink.
Tamra builds a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through painful events and confusing feelings. She has a long history working with first responders, including police, fire, and EMT personnel, and has used debriefing and critical incident stress management in the field.
Background and approach
Sessions are brief and focused, with many offered in 30-minute blocks to fit into busy days. Tamra blends practical tools with client-centered listening so conversations lead to small, doable steps. She draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Narrative Therapy to help people notice what matters and rewrite unhelpful stories about themselves.
Her practice also addresses divorce and separation, blended family issues, infidelity, jealousy, and non-monogamous relationship concerns. Tamra helps people work through grief, end-of-life issues, and health-related stress including HIV and hospice topics. People who prefer direct, movement-focused sessions tend to do well with her style.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to match different schedules. All sessions are conducted in English from her Texas practice.
Approaches that fit busy lives and trauma recovery
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and clarify what matters to them. It supports steps toward a meaningful life even when feelings are intense. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and experience, offering a listening space where people set the pace and direction of work. Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and their relationships and helps reframe those stories so they are less limiting.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then adapt methods from ACT, client-centered work, or narrative techniques as needed. Decisions are made together so the plan matches what the person wants to change and how they prefer to work.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller discussion is needed. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break or a carpool gap. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching moments, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options aim to make consistent care easier to fit into daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English