About Tara
Tara Boerner is a licensed marriage and family therapist who brings 16 years of clinical experience to her work in California. She focuses on practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and related concerns. Tara emphasizes a respectful, down-to-earth style and believes clients know their stories best.
She helps people sort through relationship and family conflict in straightforward ways. Sessions often focus on improving communication, managing strong emotions, and finding workable steps forward.
Background and approach
Tara also supports people coping with loss, addiction concerns, anger, and intimacy challenges. In therapy she looks for usable strengths and small changes that make daily life easier. Her approach is collaborative - she listens first, then suggests concrete tools to try between sessions.
People come away with clearer options and skills to manage panic, low self-esteem, or mood ups and downs. Tara has worked with caregivers and those facing workplace stress, loneliness, and issues around guilt or forgiveness. She also addresses panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, and women’s issues.
Her background includes long-term clinical work helping people navigate career choices and bipolar-related concerns. For those new to online sessions, Tara offers multiple formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. She encourages taking the first step, completing a short match form, and scheduling a time that fits individual needs.
Evidence-based techniques and online therapy options
Many of Tara’s clinical approaches are evidence-based techniques aimed at teaching practical skills. One common method focuses on building calmer responses to anxiety and panic by teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations; this helps reduce avoidance and regain confidence. Another approach emphasizes emotion regulation and clearer communication to improve relationships and manage anger, grief, or mood swings; it teaches ways to name feelings, shift unhelpful reactions, and practice different responses.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Tara works with each person to identify what matters most, tries techniques together, and adjusts the plan based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide which tools fit the person’s goals and daily routine.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to practice new skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
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