Tamra Priestley, LCMHC

Tamra Priestley is an LCMHC - Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor practicing in Utah with eight years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, depression, addictions, family concerns, and related issues such as self-esteem and grief. Tamra also lists work with trauma and abuse, parenting, intimacy-related issues, and ADHD among her areas of focus.

She approaches sessions in a practical way. Tamra frames conversations around learning skills for better relationships and managing strong emotions. She often assigns simple homework between sessions so people can practice new skills in daily life. Sessions are aimed at improving motivation, self-confidence, and everyday functioning rather than labels or tests.

Tamra combines client-centered listening with structured approaches when they fit the client. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify thinking patterns that maintain anxiety or depression. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills and Emotionally-Focused Therapy tools to address intense emotions and relationship patterns.

Her background includes work in three private practices and providing services for employee programs that included first responders and law enforcement and their families. She has experience with older adults facing end-of-life concerns and with people affected by adoption, divorce, and caregiving stress. Tamra also brings perspective from her own life as a single parent and from family experiences that inform her clinical work.

People who come to Tamra can expect straightforward conversations, skill practice between sessions, and attention to the ways family of origin and past events shape current patterns. The focus is on practical steps to reduce anxiety, improve relationships, and rebuild confidence.

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