Tamara Spears, LMSW

Tamara Spears is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with extensive experience in human services and clinical care. Over a long career she has worked across social services, inpatient settings, and outpatient therapy, supporting people facing depression, anxiety, relationship and family challenges, parenting concerns, career transitions, obsessive-compulsive difficulties, and Adult ADHD. She has also assisted many individuals coping with anger, past trauma, and emotional abuse.

Her approach is grounded in a person-centered, warm, and interactive style that emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion rather than stigmatizing labels. She combines practical strategies with deeper exploration, tailoring each treatment plan to the individual. Her work draws on an array of therapeutic methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems.

Tamara focuses on creating a collaborative space where clients can set goals, develop coping skills, and explore patterns that affect daily functioning and relationships. She offers guidance, encouragement, and practical tools aimed at promoting greater well-being and more satisfying connections with others. Her practice also attends to related concerns such as grief, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, caregiver stress, codependency, communication difficulties, life purpose, and mood instability. Tamara brings steady clinical judgment and a supportive presence to people seeking thoughtful, individualized care.