Taryn Crockerham, LMFT

Taryn Crockerham is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist with 17 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, trauma and parenting challenges. Taryn aims to make the first step easier by offering a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk and reflect.

She centers sessions on what matters most to each person. Conversations cover practical skills as well as the feelings behind difficult moments. Taryn listens closely and helps people notice patterns in thinking and behavior that keep problems stuck.

Taryn uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients test unhelpful thoughts and try new actions. She also draws on client-centered principles to keep the work grounded in each person's values and priorities. Dialectical behavior therapy tools are available when emotion regulation and coping skills are needed.

Her approach blends short-term problem solving with deeper narrative work when people want to make sense of past events. Motivational interviewing techniques support change by clarifying personal goals and building small achievable steps. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit what the client wants to address.

Taryn has experience with issues tied to aging, immigration, multicultural concerns, obsessions and compulsions, postpartum depression, and non-monogamous relationship structures. She works with people facing prejudice and discrimination and with young adults navigating life transitions. Appointments are scheduled in California and carried out in English.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online sessions can use CBT to map patterns, set experiments between meetings, and practice skills during video or phone sessions.

Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and empathy. In an online setting this means the therapist follows the client's priorities, reflects what they hear, and helps people name what matters to them before moving toward change.

DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Online work can include short coaching exchanges by text or live chat to reinforce skills learned in longer video sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and comfort with different formats. That may mean trying CBT tools for a few weeks, then adding narrative or motivational techniques if deeper meaning or behavior change is needed.

Online therapy offers flexible options: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat for quick check-ins or skill reminders. These formats help fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or days when a shorter touchpoint is more helpful. Licensed professionals can use these tools to keep momentum between longer sessions and tailor care to each person's life.