About Tara
Tara Schoeller is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She trained in social work at Columbia University and brings practical, down-to-earth care to each conversation. Tara aims to build trust quickly so people feel safe talking about what matters most.
Her background includes work in schools, clinics, and independent practice across many settings. That variety shaped a flexible approach to common struggles like parenting strain, relationship problems, addiction concerns, and career stress.
Background and approach
She also focuses on attachment issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and body image concerns. In sessions she uses straightforward tools drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-based approaches, and client-centered work. The tone is collaborative and nonjudgmental - Tara listens first and matches strategies to each person’s needs.
Sessions combine practical skills, coping strategies, and attention to personal values. People come to her for short-term coaching-style work and for longer-term support. She helps people set clear goals, try new coping methods, and adjust plans as life changes.
Tara aims to strengthen resilience and day-to-day functioning. Based in Georgia, Tara works with adults on a range of concerns including depression, ADHD, anger, communication problems, and forgiveness. She communicates in English and is available to international clients by online formats.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward those values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches practical skills to change them. It is useful for managing worry, low mood, impulsivity, and behavior patterns that interfere with daily life.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating. It can be helpful for communication problems, commitment issues, and blended family challenges.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Tara will talk with each person about goals, what has helped before, and preferences for change. Then she will suggest techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for full sessions and visual connection, phone works well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports brief coaching, homework check-ins, or on-the-go support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping work focused and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English