About Tara
Tara Schoeller is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She practices in Georgia and brings a steady, practical approach to anxiety and stress. Tara emphasizes building a trusting relationship where people can talk openly and honestly.
She trained at Columbia University, earning a Master of Social Work, and earlier completed a Bachelor of Social Work at the College of St. Catherine's. Tara has worked in schools, clinics, and independent practice settings over her career.
Background and approach
In sessions she draws on familiar, straightforward methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered techniques. She also integrates acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused thinking, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches when helpful. Conversations focus on what matters most to each person and on simple, usable tools.
Tara describes her style as down-to-earth, non-judgmental, and strengths-based. She listens for values and goals, then helps people practice small changes that add up. Her work includes attention to parenting stress, relationship strain, grief, career shifts, and problems with focus or impulse control.
People who prefer clear structure and practical exercises tend to find her approach useful. She offers a calm presence while helping people name priorities and try new ways of coping. The aim is steady progress toward goals, one step at a time.
Approach-driven care for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when anxiety is present. It uses simple exercises and real-life commitments to reduce avoidance and build a meaningful routine.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns of connection shape current relationship stress and communication problems. It can help people understand triggers and try different ways of relating that feel safer and more reliable.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It teaches practical skills for spotting unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and changing behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tara will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match goals, preferences, and daily life. She adapts techniques as progress unfolds so sessions stay useful and focused.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit busy schedules. Video calls let people work through deeper material face-to-face, phone sessions can be a helpful shorter check-in, and live chat or text messaging lets someone get support between appointments. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice new skills where they matter most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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