About Tara
Tara Wells is a licensed clinical social worker with eight years of social work experience. She welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, changes, grief, body image concerns, or issues related to identity. Tara writes clearly and invites straightforward conversations to help people start feeling more able to manage daily life.
Her approach is practical and goal-focused. She uses client-centered work to meet people where they are and help them set doable steps forward.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral ideas are used to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness and trauma-focused techniques help when past hurts or intense emotions get in the way. Tara’s background includes community work, school-based settings with grades 6-12, substance use facilities, and involvement in collegiate athletics and coaching.
She also runs a small independent practice and a mental coaching business aimed at athletes wanting to access competitive potential. These varied roles shaped a flexible, real-world style of support. She pays attention to multicultural factors and follows cultural humility in her work.
That means she listens to each person’s story and learns from their perspective rather than assuming she already understands. This helps when identity, prejudice, or gender issues affect how people feel and relate. Tara offers online options including messaging and live scheduled sessions.
Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling the first meeting.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on the person first and asks what matters most to them. In practice that looks like setting shared goals and checking in on progress, which fits well with messaging and scheduled video sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people notice thought patterns and try small behavior changes. It’s useful for anxiety, mood problems, and habits and can be taught in short phone check-ins or guided exercises over chat.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. If something isn’t working, adjustments are made together so the plan stays practical and useful.
Online formats offer real flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more nuance is helpful. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between meetings, do short exercises, or have brief coaching-style support during a busy week.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English