Tara Lineberry , LICSW, LCSW

Tara Lineberry is a licensed clinical social worker based in Virginia who brings a compassionate, strengths-focused approach to therapy. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials - LICSW stands for Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and LCSW denotes Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Southern California. With a decade of clinical experience, she has focused much of her practice on mental health disorders, addiction, domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, trauma, eating disorders, and issues of self-esteem.

Tara emphasizes the importance of a trusting therapeutic relationship and creates a warm, nonjudgmental space where clients can explore their thoughts and feelings. She believes many people already recognize steps toward healing and that a therapist's role is to sit alongside them, reflect their experience, and help identify personal strengths to draw upon during difficult times. Her counseling style is open, caring, and respectful, aimed at meeting clients where they are on their journey toward wellness and healing.

Clinically, she integrates interventions from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Solution Focused Therapy to support symptom management and practical problem solving. She offers messaging, live chat, and phone sessions and typically checks messages multiple times per day, seven days per week. Tara provides evening and weekend availability with limited daytime openings, and clients are encouraged to message about scheduling if calendar listings do not reflect all possible options.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care and Healing

Therapists often draw on evidence-based approaches that can be adapted to online formats. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps clients notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, and is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, is a trauma-focused approach that helps people process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-focused awareness and acceptance skills that can support emotion regulation and reduce reactivity.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Tara works with clients to identify goals, preferences, and responses to different techniques, tailoring interventions over time so the work feels practical and aligned with each person’s needs. This collaborative stance helps clients feel involved in choosing what approaches fit best.

Online therapy makes it easier to fit care into busy lives by offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options increase scheduling flexibility, allow work to continue from home or on the go, and support ongoing connection between sessions, making consistent therapeutic progress more achievable for many people.