About Tara
Tara Barbaro is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with ten years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and low self-esteem. Tara aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where clients can talk through what feels hard right now.
She uses straightforward, goal-oriented methods and adapts conversations to each person’s needs. That might mean identifying small steps to reduce anxiety or working on practical skills to rebuild confidence after loss.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is most useful in the client’s daily life rather than on jargon or lengthy theory. Tara also supports people dealing with relationship strain, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, career questions, anger, and major life transitions.
She has additional experience with aging and geriatric concerns, caregiving stress, divorce and separation, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and veteran and armed forces issues. Her style is collaborative and solution-focused: she listens, helps set clear short-term goals, and checks progress together. Clients can expect direct feedback and tools to practice between meetings.
The aim is steady, practical change rather than quick fixes. Tara works by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. She guides each person through a matching and scheduling process so therapy fits their life and goals.
Approaches that guide online sessions and flexible formats
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person as an individual. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what she hears, and helps clients find their own solutions to stress, grief, or self-esteem struggles.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. In brief, practical steps clients learn to notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.
Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, achievable changes rather than long reviews of the past. Sessions often set a clear short-term goal and identify next steps the client can try before the next meeting.
Tara treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will discuss options, try different strategies, and adjust plans based on how the client responds. The aim is to match methods to the client's goals and daily life, not to force a single style.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text work well for brief updates, tracking progress, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules while keeping the focus on steady, practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English