About Tara
Tara Coleman is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people handle stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She keeps things practical and straightforward so worried parents can read quickly and know what to expect. Tara writes plain goals and makes clear next steps during sessions.
Tara uses short-term tools and deeper exploration depending on the need. She offers strategies to manage panic, low mood, and overwhelm. She also helps people who are dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, relationship concerns, and career stress.
Background and approach
Work often includes skill-building for self-esteem, communication, and coping with life transitions. Her approach balances practical steps with attention to personal stories. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thought patterns that feed anxiety and depression.
Mindfulness practices are used to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Narrative and psychodynamic ideas get attention when understanding past influences matters. Tara has eight years of experience as a clinician in Florida and holds the credential Licensed Clinical Social Worker, or LCSW.
She offers sessions in English and can work with international clients. Formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Sessions are aimed at clear, achievable change.
Parents reading on a phone will find concrete ideas to try between meetings. To begin, prospective clients select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on the therapist's availability.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Therapists often draw on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to find and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is goal-focused and offers specific exercises that can be practiced between sessions, which works well over video or messaging.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These short practices can be guided during a video call or reinforced through text check-ins. Motivational Interviewing helps people clarify what they want and find the internal drive to make changes. It uses straightforward questions and reflections that fit well into phone conversations or live chat exchanges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods, review what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions offer flexibility across several formats - video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to use different formats for different purposes, such as a quick coaching message or a longer reflective video session.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English