About Tara
Tara Fischer is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Wisconsin. She focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, or facing life changes. Tara aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for everyday life.
Tara uses a client-centered stance that puts the person's goals first. She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used to teach emotion regulation and coping tools when emotions feel overwhelming.
Background and approach
Her work emphasizes the whole person rather than a single label. She has experience supporting people who report anxiety, depression, ADHD, autism, and past trauma. Tara pays attention to how emotional, physical, and spiritual needs interact in daily living.
Sessions are collaborative and focused on real problems and achievable steps. She blends solution-focused techniques for short-term goal work with skills-based practice for longer-term change. Conversations usually move between understanding what matters to the person and practicing new ways of responding.
With six years of clinical experience, Tara brings practical strategies and calm support to the room. She aims to help people build tools they can use outside of sessions. People who want straightforward skills and a respectful, goal-oriented approach may find her style helpful.
How Tara’s Approaches Translate to Online Sessions
Tara commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in her online practice. Client-centered therapy means the conversation centers on the person's own goals and values, and the therapist listens and reflects to help the person find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and practicing new, healthier responses in daily life.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Tara will collaborate with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs and goals, and she adjusts methods as progress happens. The process is paced to what the person wants to accomplish and how they prefer to work.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexible ways to connect. Video sessions let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides a shorter check-in option, and text messaging supports ongoing skill practice between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still applying CBT and client-centered strategies.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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