Tamara Blau, LCSW, LISW

Tamara Blau is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of clinical experience. She offers calm, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, anger, depression, or life changes. She writes in a straightforward way and focuses on what can be done now to make daily life easier.

Tamara uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered methods, and mindfulness practices to help people change unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Sessions look at coping skills, problem solving, and clearer communication. She also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas when people want concrete, short-term goals.

Her background includes long work in public social services and time supporting middle school students in a school setting. That experience sharpened her skills in managing mood difficulties, behavior challenges, and parenting stress. It also shaped how she explains strategies simply and compassionately.

In a typical session she helps clients notice patterns, test small changes, and practice new responses between appointments. She works with concerns such as panic attacks, addictions, relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, and workplace issues. Tamara also supports caregivers facing ongoing stress and people coping with emptiness or communication problems.

She holds a Master of Science in Social Administration from Case Western Reserve University. Tamara is licensed in Virginia as an LCSW and also holds an LISW in Ohio. She conducts sessions in English and adapts her approach to each person’s needs.

Therapy approaches and what online care looks like

Tamara commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centered methods to help people make practical changes. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new, more helpful ways of thinking and behaving, which can ease anxiety, panic attacks, low mood, and workplace stress. Client-centered work emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people set their own goals while the therapist follows their lead.

She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and help with emotion management. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process; the therapist and client talk through goals, try methods that fit the person, and adjust plans based on what helps most.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill work and guided practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, and reinforcing new habits between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule while working with licensed professionals.