Tamara Banks , LPC

Tamara Banks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years of experience. She focuses on women's issues alongside a broad range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting, depression, addictions, and relationship struggles.

She uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions and adapts her approach to each person. Tamara draws on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral ideas to help people name patterns and try new coping steps. She also uses solution-focused and trauma-informed techniques when those fit a person's situation.

Her background includes work across school and community settings. That experience gives her familiarity with parenting stress, grief, self-esteem struggles, and the challenges that follow trauma or losses. She describes herself as compassionate and direct, aiming to make therapy a useful part of everyday life.

Tamara earned graduate degrees from Marshall University Graduate College and teaches there as an adjunct professor. Her long career includes supporting people dealing with eating concerns, anger, bipolar mood issues, and major life changes.

In sessions she helps people set clear, manageable goals and practices skills between meetings. She respects each person’s pace and focuses on practical steps that can reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Her practice is based in West Virginia and sessions are conducted in English.

Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life

Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building a helpful relationship. In these sessions the therapist follows your lead, reflects what you say, and helps you notice strengths and choices that matter. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before. Together they choose techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made so sessions stay focused and useful.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins, and different ways to practice skills outside sessions.