Tara Lineberry, LICSW, LCSW

Tara Lineberry is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in Virginia. She has ten years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma, addiction, grief, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Tara aims to build a warm, non-judgmental connection so people feel heard and understood from the start.

She prefers straightforward, practical work in sessions. Tara listens closely and offers tools drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas and emotion-focused methods to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding. She also uses EMDR and mindfulness strategies when trauma and intense memories are part of the picture.

Tara often focuses on strengths people already have and helps them put those strengths to use during hard times. She works with concerns like attachment and abandonment, communication and commitment problems, body image and eating-related issues, and challenges that come from blended families or family of origin wounds.

Her counseling style is open, caring, and respectful. She aims to meet people where they are and to sit with them through the thinking and feeling that follow difficult experiences. Her background includes work with survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and people managing addiction and eating disorders.

Sessions are offered in English and Tara accepts international clients. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to therapist availability.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name core feelings and how those feelings shape reactions in relationships. It often helps with attachment concerns, commitment worries, and recurring communication problems.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, stress, low mood, and getting unstuck with daily routines and coping skills.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) offers a method for working with distressing memories and trauma symptoms by processing painful memories in a focused way.

Finding the best approach is part of the work. Tara collaborates with each person to match methods to their needs and goals. She combines approaches when that makes sense and adjusts plans as people notice what helps them most.

Practical benefits of online therapy include easier scheduling around work and family demands, access to a therapist from different locations, and flexible ways to check in between sessions. The biography lists messaging, live chat, and phone sessions as formats she uses, so confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make therapy fit into daily life without needing to rearrange a whole day.