Tamara Blau, LCSW, LISW

Tamara Blau is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Virginia and a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) in Ohio. She brings a calm, nonjudgmental style and practical focus to conversations. She aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood challenges, and difficulties with relationships and parenting.

She draws on ten years of clinical experience alongside a longer history in public social services and school settings. That background includes work with adolescents and their caregivers, and time supporting middle school students with behavior, depression, and anxiety. Those roles shaped how she thinks about everyday coping skills and family strain.

Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She uses client-centered methods to listen and build goals together. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors.

Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are tools she uses to strengthen motivation and attention to the present moment. Solution-focused techniques help people set short-term, doable steps toward change. Together these methods are aimed at problems such as addiction, grief, trauma, workplace stress, and parenting strain.

Sessions with Tamara typically focus on skill building, clear goals, and practical strategies you can try between meetings. She works with people to develop tools for both immediate relief and longer-term resilience.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building goals together. In practice this means the therapist prioritizes what matters to the client and helps shape a plan that fits their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings, and actions to find small changes that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Mindfulness Therapy encourages simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tamara will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try first, adjust techniques as needed, and set clear short-term steps. That way therapy stays practical and aligned with the client's goals and preferences.

The biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can use these methods to teach coping skills, track progress, and assign brief between-session exercises that support lasting change.