About Tara
Dr. Tara Harvey is an LPC with 20 years of clinical experience based in Tennessee. She helps people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and grief.
She also supports concerns like relationship strain, intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, and career or parenting stress. She takes a practical, down-to-earth approach. Sessions focus on what feels most urgent and useful for a person right now.
She pays attention to how the body and emotions connect, and uses that information to guide conversations and exercises.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in varied mental health settings and time teaching others about clinical practice. The mix of roles gave her experience with many common and complex concerns, including mood disorders, trauma, and life transitions. She brings two decades of practice to each meeting.
Treatment draws on several methods to match individual needs. Techniques come from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior strategies, emotionally-focused ideas, and somatic awareness. The focus is on practical steps and small changes clients can use between sessions.
People who reach out can expect collaborative planning and clear goals. The therapist aims to help clients build skills for coping, managing emotions, and reconnecting with what matters to them. Progress is paced to each person’s comfort and readiness.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Somatic work pays attention to how sensations in the body relate to emotions and memories. It can help people notice tension, breathing patterns, and physical reactions that keep stress or anxiety active, then practice gentle ways to shift those patterns.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on a respectful, non-directive relationship. The therapist listens closely and helps clients find their own answers, which suits people who want a supportive space to sort through decisions or identity questions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches clear strategies for changing unhelpful thought patterns and building new behaviors for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on their goals and comfort. That plan can change as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. These formats allow for consistent follow-up, quick check-ins, and a mix of real-time conversation and written support between sessions. Licensed professionals can use these methods to deliver the same kinds of skills, reflection, and planning that happen in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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