Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
How Tarisha works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Tarisha
Tarisha McCullen is a licensed clinical social worker with eight years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage strong emotions and daily stress so they can feel more in control. Tarisha works with adults on problems like anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and anger.
Tarisha uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people notice patterns and try new ways of responding. She believes in a respectful, nonjudgmental approach that starts where someone is.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build skills for coping with changes, improving communication, and managing mood swings. Her background includes work with mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and ADHD-related struggles. She also supports people facing grief, postpartum depression, eating concerns, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Tarisha has experience addressing workplace stress and problems that come up during young adulthood. Tarisha is based in North Carolina and provides services in English. She has experience with veteran and armed forces issues and with families navigating adoption and foster care dynamics.
Her practice includes attention to disruptive mood dysregulation and related behavior concerns. In sessions she focuses on practical tools you can use between meetings. That might include communication strategies, emotion regulation techniques, and steps to reconnect with values and self-care.
Tarisha aims to tailor the work to each person’s needs and goals.
What Tarisha works with
Everything Tarisha lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Tarisha's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Communication problems
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Practical Approaches for Online Emotional Work
Tarisha uses evidence-based techniques that focus on skills people can apply right away. One common approach she uses helps people identify triggers and practice emotion regulation - learning simple steps to calm down and make clearer choices when anger or anxiety rises. This method is useful for stress, mood swings, and managing intense reactions.She also emphasizes behavioral strategies that change daily routines and habits. These techniques break problems into manageable steps, like adjusting sleep, activity, or communication patterns, and can help with depression, ADHD-related struggles, and workplace stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals and day-to-day life. Together they try things out and refine what helps most over time.
Online therapy makes these methods easy to access. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues while phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are available for brief updates, coping reminders, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while staying connected to a licensed professional.
Questions people ask about Tarisha
What concerns does she help with?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and relationship or family problems. Other focus areas include ADHD, grief, postpartum depression, and workplace issues.
What is her therapy style like?
Tarisha takes a practical, evidence-based approach and adapts methods to each person. Sessions focus on learning skills, changing unhelpful patterns, and improving day-to-day functioning.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of experience working as a psychotherapist. That background includes work with mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and anger-related concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing in North Carolina.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English. She also accepts clients from outside the United States.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and services are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. Then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.