About Tara
Tara Ashley is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience in Montana. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those facing relationship strain and life transitions. Tara aims to create a calm space where clients can talk through what matters most to them.
She uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people notice patterns and try small changes. Sessions often include straightforward tools for coping with worry, improving sleep, and handling anger.
Background and approach
Tara also helps people work through grief, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and the emotional fallout of divorce and separation. Her work pays special attention to issues that affect women, including pregnancy and childbirth and career changes. She helps with questions about life purpose, money stress, and feelings of isolation or shame.
She also supports people dealing with bipolar disorder, depression, and post-traumatic stress in ways suited to their daily life. Tara describes her style as collaborative and client-centered. She listens first, then uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and the Gottman Method where they fit.
Sessions are tailored to the person's goals and pace. People who prefer a steady, respectful guide may find her approach useful. Tara aims to help clients build skills they can use outside sessions.
Her practice emphasizes clear steps, steady progress, and practical support for everyday challenges.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful steps. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing practical changes in behavior to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep problems. The Gottman Method is an approach for addressing relationship patterns and improving communication through clear skills and exercises that couples can practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tara will talk with each person about goals and daily life to choose methods that fit. She treats the process as a collaboration and adjusts techniques over time so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep steady momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Montana
- Languages
- English
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