Tarrah Grady, LCSW
Compassionate clinician focused on practical change
Explore online therapy optionsWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Depression
How Tarrah works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Years in practice
- 17
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Tarrah
Tarrah Grady is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 17 years of clinical experience. She draws on practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anger, anxiety, and life changes. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping people take steps that fit their daily lives.
She uses methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills for managing strong emotions and changing unhelpful patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients focus on values and meaningful action despite difficult feelings.
Background and approach
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is part of her toolkit for processing past trauma when appropriate. Grady has worked in hospitals, clinics, inpatient addiction treatment, prisons, schools, and suicide intervention organizations. That range gives her experience with crisis work, group settings, and one-on-one counseling.
She has also provided counseling in addiction treatment and for people coping with grief, depression, and relationship strain. She holds a Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis and an undergraduate degree in social work from the University of Central Missouri.
Her license is LCSW in Missouri, which appears after her name as LCSW. Sessions are practical and collaborative. She helps people build skills, try small behavior changes, and set realistic goals.
The focus often includes communication, managing anger, improving sleep, and reducing anxiety so daily life feels more manageable. Tarrah works with adults on a range of concerns including addictions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, parenting strain, caregiver stress, intimacy issues, and self-esteem. She also supports people facing adoption or attachment issues and those coping with cancer or aging transitions.
What Tarrah works with
Everything Tarrah lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Tarrah's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tarrah lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where someone wants clearer direction and more meaningful daily routines.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that maintain problems. CBT is commonly used for depression, anxiety, sleep troubles, and managing anger by teaching practical coping strategies.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication. Those tools can be especially useful when emotions feel overwhelming or when relationships are strained.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to focus on skills practice, values-based action, trauma processing, or a mix of methods.
Online sessions let people fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow real-time interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing skill practice. These options make it possible to continue consistent work on anger, anxiety, addiction, or grief even with a changing schedule.
Questions people ask about Tarrah
What concerns does she help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy problems, grief, sleep issues, self-esteem, and career or life transitions.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is warm, engaging, and interactive. Sessions focus on practical skills, problem solving, and setting small, achievable goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 17 years of clinical experience, including work in hospitals, inpatient addiction treatment, prisons, schools, and suicide intervention organizations.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Missouri LCSW, based in Missouri.
Can sessions be held in other languages or for international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session according to the therapist's availability.