About Tara
Tara Coleman is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and major life changes. She uses a straightforward, warm style so conversations feel calm and focused. Tara aims to help clients build confidence, cope with difficult emotions, and find clearer direction in their lives.
She blends practical work with attention to personal history. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different responses.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques help people notice reactions without getting swept up by them. Motivational Interviewing supports clients who want to strengthen their reasons for change. Tara also uses narrative and psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time.
That helps when concerns link back to relationships, attachment, or past trauma. She offers concrete tools for panic attacks, anxiety, grief, and compassion fatigue alongside space to process difficult events. Sessions focus on small, doable steps and clear goals.
Tara works with career stress, self-esteem struggles, body image, and relationship communication problems. She also helps people dealing with life purpose, midlife concerns, and the effects of military service. With eight years of practice in Florida as an LCSW, she brings steady experience and a practical mindset.
Conversations are paced to each person’s needs, and progress is checked along the way. If someone wants thoughtful, direct support for anxiety or life transitions, Tara offers a calm, solution-oriented approach.
How approaches like CBT and mindfulness work online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and panic. Online sessions let a therapist guide thought records and exposure planning while clients practice between meetings.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. In remote sessions, clients learn short exercises they can use during stressful moments and review what helped with the clinician.
Motivational Interviewing is a conversational way to strengthen a person’s own reasons for change. It works well online by using questions and reflections to clarify goals and build motivation for steps like improving sleep or reducing avoidance.
Tara treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, try techniques that feel comfortable, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to find practical strategies that fit daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions can work when video isn’t possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options give flexible ways to fit therapy into work, family life, or a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- 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
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