Tamia Taylor
Tamia Taylor
(she/her)
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor with a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology (MSCP) from Chatham University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Childhood Studies from Rutgers University, where I also minored in Criminal Justice and Gender Studies. My professional background is rooted in advocacy, social justice, and client-centered, trauma-informed care. I specialize in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and support adolescents, young adults, and adults through deeply human experiences such as interpersonal violence, anxiety, depression, grief, self-doubt, racial identity, complex trauma, and life transitions. My therapeutic work is grounded in evidence-based modalities including CBT, Psychoanalytic, and Psychodynamic therapy—always held within a culturally responsive and client-centered lens. This is more than treatment—it’s connection, truth-telling, and reclamation. I work with you to explore the unconscious roots of your present-day distress—unraveling long-standing relational patterns, internal conflicts, and attachment wounds. Together, we examine how your early experiences have shaped your sense of self and relationships, not to stay in the past, but to understand it with compassion and gain new freedom in the present. I honor the complexity of healing—holding space for ambiguity, contradiction, and growth that unfolds over time. When requested, I integrate Christian counseling techniques—offering faith-based support if you want to explore your relationship with God and see your journey through a Christ-centered lens. Whether your faith is strong or just beginning, I use spiritual reflection, Scripture, and prayer as grounding tools for meaning-making, motivation, and healing. I aim to co-create a space where you can breathe deeper, speak freer, and begin again without shame. This is your space to show up as you are—to be witnessed in your becoming and reclaim your story.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
Your first session is an important step in your healing journey, and my priority is to create a safe, welcoming space where you feel comfortable showing up exactly as you are. During this initial meeting, we’ll focus on building rapport and establishing a foundation of trust, which is essential for the work ahead. This session is about getting to know you—not just on the surface, but understanding your story, your experiences, and what has brought you to therapy at this moment. Together, we’ll explore what your goals for therapy might be and what you hope to achieve through this process. It’s important to me that you feel empowered in shaping the direction of your healing. I want to hear about your mental health journey so far—how you have managed or coped, what support systems you’ve had in place, and what your experiences with therapy or counseling have been up to this point. Whether this is your first time in therapy or you’ve been through it before, your story and your feelings about therapy are valid and important. We’ll also take time to discuss any fears, hesitations, or concerns you might have about starting therapy. It’s normal to feel uncertain or even scared about opening up, especially in a new space with someone new. I honor that vulnerability and want to ensure that this is a place where you are met with compassion, respect, and non-judgment. Your voice matters—especially when it trembles—and together, we’ll create a space where you can begin to feel safe to express yourself freely. An essential part of our first session is completing an assessment tailored specifically to the symptoms and concerns you disclose. This assessment is not just a formality—it’s a crucial tool that helps us understand where you are right now in your mental health journey. By establishing this baseline, we can work collaboratively to set realistic, meaningful goals and develop a roadmap for your growth and healing. This personalized approach ensures that the support and interventions I provide are aligned with your unique needs and experiences. The assessment process is straightforward and handled with care and confidentiality. It provides a snapshot of your current emotional, psychological, and behavioral state, which helps me tailor our work together in the most effective way possible. But beyond the assessment, the session is centered on you—your comfort, your story, and your readiness. We move at your pace, allowing space for questions, reflection, and hones
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
What stands out most about my therapeutic approach is the deep commitment to meeting you exactly where you are—emotionally, culturally, and spiritually—and creating a space that is both safe and empowering. I blend evidence-based modalities such as Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), psychoanalytic, and psychodynamic therapies with a culturally responsive, client-centered lens. This ensures that your unique experiences, identity, and worldview are honored throughout our work together. I believe therapy is more than treatment—it’s a process of connection, truth-telling, and reclamation. One of my greatest strengths is helping you gain deeper awareness about yourself, so you can meet yourself in a new way. This expanded self-understanding often leads to profound shifts—not only in how you interact with others but also in how you relate to yourself. Together, we work toward fostering a healthier, more compassionate relationship within, which supports lasting change and growth. My strength lies in holding space for the full complexity of who you are: the pain, the resilience, and the untapped potential. I am dedicated to walking alongside you as you explore unconscious patterns, relational dynamics, and spiritual questions, all while fostering emotional intelligence and self-compassion. Another key strength is my ability to integrate faith-based approaches when it aligns with your values and needs. Using Christian counseling techniques as requested, I support you in grounding your healing journey in your personal relationship with God, helping you find motivation and new perspectives through spiritual reflection and prayer. Clients often tell me they feel truly seen, heard, and understood in my presence. I strive to co-create a therapeutic alliance where you can breathe deeper, speak freer, and begin again without shame or judgment. My passion is deeply personal—born from my own journey and the desire to be the person I needed when I was younger. This fuels my dedication to fostering healing, growth, and transformation in each person I have the privilege to work with. Ultimately, my greatest strength is my commitment to your whole self—your story, your struggles, and your strengths—and helping you reclaim your voice and power with courage and clarity. Together, we heal forward.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
You’re someone who knows that healing is more than just checking boxes—it’s about connection, truth-telling, and reclaiming your story. Maybe you carry pain that feels heavy and complex, yet beneath it all, there’s a well of potential and power waiting to be rediscovered. Whether you’re wrestling with anxiety, grief, self-doubt, or the impact of trauma, or navigating questions around your identity and life transitions, you’re ready to show up for yourself—even when it’s scary or uncertain. You may have experienced broken cycles, difficult relationships, or wounds that keep replaying, and now you want to explore those patterns with courage and compassion. You want a space where you can breathe deeper, speak freer, and begin again without shame or judgment. Maybe you’re also longing to build emotional strength, set boundaries that protect you, or learn how to love yourself out loud—on your own terms. What matters most is that you’re engaged in this process, even if you don’t have all the answers yet. This is your space to take up, create, and navigate at your own pace—with guidance and support to help you find what feels best for you. It’s a place where your voice matters—especially when it trembles—and where you are witnessed in your becoming, not just who you are today but who you’re growing into. If you want a therapist who sees you fully—the whole person with all your pain, your resilience, and your possibility—and who believes deeply in your capacity to heal and grow, then this might be the right fit.
About Tamia Taylor
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Trauma-Focused CBT
I specialize in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), a structured, evidence-based approach that helps individuals process and heal from trauma. In my practice, I use TF-CBT to support adolescents, young adults, and adults navigating a wide range of challenges, including interpersonal violence, anxiety, depression, grief, self-doubt, racial identity exploration, complex trauma, and major life transitions. My approach integrates the core components of TF-CBT—psychoeducation, relaxation skills, affective modulation, cognitive coping, trauma narrative processing, and enhancing safety—while tailoring interventions to the unique cultural and developmental needs of each client. I work collaboratively and compassionately, helping clients reclaim their sense of agency and build resilience. Whether addressing longstanding patterns rooted in early trauma or recent life-altering events, TF-CBT allows me to guide clients through the healing process with both structure and deep attunement to their lived experience. You can rewrite your story. Your future.
Attachment-based
I incorporate an attachment-based approach in my work as a way to explore and understand how early relationships—particularly with caregivers—shape an individual’s relational patterns, emotional responses, and sense of self. This method allows me to help clients identify the implicit beliefs and behaviors they carry into current relationships, often rooted in formative attachment experiences. In my practice with adolescents, young adults, and adults, I use attachment theory to gently uncover how these early dynamics influence present-day challenges such as self-doubt, complex trauma, interpersonal difficulties, and identity development. By building a strong therapeutic alliance, I provide a secure base from which clients can begin to examine and shift long-standing relational patterns. Together, we explore how attachment wounds may manifest in their current lives, while also fostering new ways of connecting—with themselves and with others—in more authentic, secure, and fulfilling ways.
Christian Counseling
When requested, I incorporate Christian counseling techniques as a faith-based framework to support clients in exploring their personal relationship with God and gaining deeper meaning from their life experiences. This approach allows us to look at challenges through a Christ-centered lens, offering spiritual grounding, encouragement, and hope. Whether a client’s faith is well-established or just beginning to take shape, I use Christian principles to help them draw strength, find direction, and cultivate resilience. We explore how Scripture, prayer, and spiritual reflection can be integrated into the healing process, providing both comfort and clarity. Through this work, clients often develop a stronger sense of identity and purpose in Christ, as well as greater confidence in navigating their experiences and relationships in alignment with their values and beliefs as they see fit.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
My therapeutic work is grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which I use as a practical, evidence-based framework to help clients understand the connection between their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. I approach CBT through a culturally responsive and client-centered lens, ensuring that the tools and insights we develop together are not only effective, but also meaningful and relevant to each individual’s lived experience. For me, CBT is more than just a treatment model—it’s a way to support connection, truth-telling, and reclamation. Whether we’re increasing emotional intelligence, breaking generational cycles, building healthy boundaries, or learning to love yourself out loud, I aim to co-create a space where you can breathe deeper, speak freer, and begin again without shame. CBT provides the structure for growth, but it’s the relationship and the client’s voice that shape the journey.
Psychoanalytic
My approach is deeply rooted in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic principles, grounded in the belief that our earliest relationships, unconscious patterns, and internalized experiences shape how we move through the world. In therapy, I create a space where those underlying narratives—often unspoken and long-held—can safely emerge, be examined, and ultimately transformed. Through this work, we explore the “why beneath the why”: the defense mechanisms, attachment wounds, and internal conflicts that influence present-day thoughts, behaviors, and relationships. Together, we trace these patterns back to their origins—not to dwell in the past, but to understand it with compassion and reclaim power in the present. I hold space for ambiguity, contradiction, and complexity, knowing that healing rarely follows a straight line. My practice centers adolescents, young adults, and adults navigating complex trauma, relational struggles, identity development, and life transitions. Whether we’re working through grief, self-doubt, intergenerational wounds, or the quiet ache of unmet needs, the goal is not just symptom relief—it’s deeper self-understanding, emotional integration, and lasting change. Your voice matters—even when it trembles. Especially then. In my practice, this becomes a space to show up exactly as you are—to be witnessed in your becoming, to reclaim your story with courage and clarity. Here, we heal forward—together.