Tamara Gilarski , LCSW

Tamara Gilarski is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Florida with 35 years of professional experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, motivation, and coping with life changes. Tamara aims to make the first step feel manageable for people who are nervous about beginning therapy.

Her style is direct and supportive. She creates a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken about without judgment. Sessions move at a pace the person sets, and Tamara emphasizes practical steps people can use between meetings.

Tamara draws on long experience across many concerns, including attention and impulsivity challenges like ADHD, relationship impacts such as abandonment or infidelity, and life transitions like divorce or fertility struggles. She also supports people coping with loss, separation, aging, and trauma reactions.

In sessions she listens closely to what matters most and helps set achievable goals. Conversations often include skills for managing anxiety, reorganizing daily routines, and building confidence. She works alongside people to identify small changes that produce clearer thinking and calmer behavior.

People who choose her often want steady, experienced guidance and concrete tools to handle stress. Her approach suits those who want a practical, conversational therapy experience grounded in decades of clinical work.

Approaches and How Online Therapy Works

Tamara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on managing anxiety and building coping skills. This approach teaches practical exercises for breathing, grounding, and changing unhelpful thought patterns to lower day-to-day worry and improve focus.

She also uses trauma-informed methods that help people process difficult experiences at a pace they can tolerate. Those techniques prioritize safety in the session, identify triggers, and develop strategies to reduce distress when memories or reactions arise.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to a person's history, goals, and preferences, and then recommend a mix of techniques. Clients and therapist decide collaboratively which methods to try and how to adapt them over time.

Online therapy offers flexibility and makes regular sessions easier to keep. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief updates, quick coping reminders, or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and maintain steady progress.