Tamra Priestley, LCMHC

Tamra Priestley is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in Utah who focuses on helping people navigate major life shifts and relationship struggles. She emphasizes practical skills that people can use between sessions. Tamra speaks plainly and aims to help clients find more calm, confidence, and meaningful connection in day-to-day life.

She draws on eight years of experience in private practice and organizational settings. That work included supporting employees, first responders, and law enforcement families, and helping older adults cope with end-of-life concerns. She also brings personal experience as a single parent and someone affected by adoption, divorce, and abuse, which she uses to inform her clinical perspective.

Tamra uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. She employs client-centered ways of building trust, cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense emotions. She also integrates emotion-focused and existential ideas when they fit the client’s goals.

Her typical focus areas include stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem, grief, parenting concerns, ADHD, and coping with life changes. She often assigns practical homework designed to build skill and momentum outside the therapy hour.

Tamra encourages people who feel stuck to consider therapy as a step toward clearer purpose and steadier functioning. She invites prospective clients to reflect on the changes they want and to begin by answering a brief matching questionnaire to see if she might be a good fit.

How Tamra’s Approaches Translate to Online Support

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting connection so the person feels heard and understood; this helps people shift stuck patterns and explore values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and offers clear exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, often used for anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try specific techniques, and adjust the plan as progress and needs become clearer. Clients and the clinician decide together which methods fit best for the work at hand.

The profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and allow for brief check-ins when that is helpful. It also lets people practice skills between sessions in their everyday settings. Licensed professionals can adapt these methods so the work remains practical and focused on real-life changes.