Paula Tacker

Paula Tacker, LCSW, brings a grounded, rural perspective shaped by a lifetime in southeast Texas and periods living in larger cities. She balances professional training with a personal life that includes a long marriage, a daughter, two grandsons, and a small farm with horses, a donkey, and chickens. Those details inform a practical, earthy sensibility in her view of healing.

Paula emphasizes care for the whole person, attending to body, soul, and spirit as interconnected parts of wellbeing. She conveys a steady, step-by-step orientation toward change, describing progress as a series of small actions taken one day at a time. Her stated specialty areas include stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue, with additional attention to forgiveness and life purpose.

She invites people to approach change as tending a garden, removing old growth and planting new seeds that may yield healthier fruit. Her description frames therapeutic work as practical effort and emotional tending that can fit into everyday life. Paula welcomes those who are ready to begin a process of change while acknowledging that life moves through seasons that sometimes require outside support.