About Tara
Tara Trammell welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Carolina with 17 years of experience. Tara aims to make early conversations simple and direct so parents and adults can start feeling understood.
She uses plain language and steady support during sessions. Tara’s work focuses on common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and low self-esteem. She also helps with relationship and family concerns, trauma or abuse, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and life transitions.
Background and approach
She pays attention to practical problems such as communication breakdowns, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and blended family adjustments. Her style is warm and interactive. Tara listens without labels and adapts conversations to each person’s needs.
She blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other approaches to create usable steps you can try between sessions. Across her career she worked with the South Carolina Department of Mental Health and brings that practical experience into her work. Tara draws on motivational interviewing and narrative therapy when those methods help move a client forward.
She aims to build plans that fit daily life. Tara encourages people to take small, manageable steps toward change. She helps set goals, practice new ways of thinking, and build routines that reduce stress.
If someone is ready to begin, she walks alongside them as they try out new strategies.
How Tara’s approaches are used online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience at the center of the work. The therapist listens closely, reflects what matters, and follows the client’s pace to build trust and clarity. This approach helps with low self-esteem, grief, and moments when someone needs acceptance more than advice.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Tara helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practices small behavioral changes that reduce anxiety and depression. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding techniques that can lower stress and improve emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tara collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and daily life. She adjusts the plan as progress is made so the approach stays useful and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use facial cues and longer conversations. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, brief reflections, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English