About Tara
Dr. Tara Harvey focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, and related concerns. She is Dr.
Tara Harvey, an LPC practicing in Tennessee with two decades of experience. Her approach aims to help people regain balance and manage life’s difficult moments. She draws on a mix of practical methods.
Sessions often include client-centered conversation to understand what matters most to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills may be taught to manage intense emotions and improve coping. Tara also uses emotion-focused and psychodynamic ideas when they fit a person’s needs. That can mean looking at patterns from the past that affect current relationships and feelings.
The work is collaborative; she helps set goals and adjusts methods based on what’s working. Her background includes teaching and diverse clinical settings, and she brings that experience into sessions. She describes therapy as a process that addresses mind, body, and spirit to support meaningful change.
People who come for help can expect clear, steady guidance and practical tools to use between meetings. Therapy with Tara typically moves at a person’s pace. She helps people sort priorities, practice new skills, and track progress toward everyday goals.
The emphasis is on usable strategies that fit each person’s life.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and builds a safe place to talk about hard topics. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical steps to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and many daily struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. This collaborative planning helps match techniques to a person’s needs and preferences rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach.
Online care via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging gives flexibility for different situations. Video calls let people meet face-to-face for deeper conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or messaging can be a brief check-in or a way to work in short steps between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English