About Tara
Tara J. May is a licensed independent social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and the hard parts of life. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that bring relief.
Her approach is calm and down-to-earth, aimed at making therapy useful day to day. Tara draws on six years of experience working with concerns like low self-esteem, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, mood struggles, and the fallout from relationship problems such as attachment wounds, codependency, or communication breakdowns.
Background and approach
Her work emphasizes collaborative problem solving. Sessions often include straightforward tools from evidence-based therapeutic techniques, mindfulness practices, and solution-focused conversations to help people try new coping strategies between sessions. Tara explains things plainly and keeps goals concrete.
She helps people break large problems into manageable steps and track small changes over time. This makes progress easier to see and keeps momentum moving forward. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can fit different schedules and comfort levels.
Tara provides care from Ohio and conducts sessions in English for people located in the United States. People who prefer clear goals and practical skills may find this approach helpful. Tara aims to support clients as they build resilience, clarify values, and find better routines for everyday life.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with small behavioral experiments. It can help with anxiety, worry, and mood changes by teaching concrete skills to shift reactions and try new behaviors.Mindfulness-based techniques teach simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm during stressful moments. These methods support people who struggle with overwhelming emotions or recurring worry by building steadying habits for daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Tara works together with each person to choose which techniques to try, adjusts methods based on what helps, and sets clear, practical goals. Clients and the therapist check progress and change course as needed to match goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging helps keep progress going between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep consistent work on anxiety and stress management.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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