Tamra Priestley, LCMHC

Tamra Priestley is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in Utah who combines clinical expertise with life coaching to help people strengthen their relationships and develop self-mastery. With an emphasis on practical skills, she supports clients in building healthier connections with themselves first and then with others, guiding people through anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and the long-term effects of trauma and abuse. She explains that trauma can reach into many areas of life - reducing motivation, damaging confidence, and fueling depression and anxiety - and she works to help clients heal those parts of their past.

Her professional background includes roles in multiple private practices and work providing services for employee programs, including support for first responders, law enforcement, and their families. She has also worked with older adults facing end-of-life concerns and welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. Tamra draws on personal life experience as a single parent, and on experiences related to adoption, divorce, and family challenges, to inform a compassionate and practical approach to therapy. She favors therapeutic homework that helps clients make progress between sessions.

As an LCMHC - a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with formal training to provide psychotherapy - she offers goal-oriented support for stress, relationships, trauma, parenting, addictions, grief, career concerns, ADHD, and many other issues. She invites those seeking meaning, skill-building, and healing to explore a path toward a more peaceful and productive life.

Therapeutic Approaches Available Online

Tamra Priestley integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to support clients working remotely. Client-centered therapy focuses on meeting people where they are, offering empathic listening and validation while helping clients discover their own goals and strengths - it is especially helpful for relationship concerns, self-esteem, and healing from loss. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a practical, skills-based approach that helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and develop new behaviors - it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.

She also draws on elements of emotionally-focused therapy when addressing attachment and intimacy issues, helping clients explore patterns in their close relationships and build deeper emotional connection. Finding the right approach is part of the process - Tamra works collaboratively with each person to tailor methods based on needs, goals, and personal preferences, adjusting strategies as progress unfolds.

Online sessions offer flexibility and access through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, to connect from different locations in Utah, and to continue care through transitions. Licensed professionals can provide meaningful therapeutic work through these formats, and Tamra adapts core techniques so clients can practice skills and make steady progress between conversations.