Tara Boerner , LMFT

Tara Boerner is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 16 years of professional experience. She specializes in helping people manage stress and anxiety, resolve relationship and family conflicts, and navigate grief and loss. Her work also addresses a broad range of concerns including addiction, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, and mood disorders such as bipolar conditions.

Tara approaches each person as the expert of their own story, building on existing strengths to support growth and change. She brings an evidence-based perspective to therapy while attending to issues like caregiver stress, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, women’s issues, and workplace-related difficulties. Her practice emphasizes practical coping skills alongside deeper relational and emotional work to help clients move toward clearer goals and improved functioning.

Tara encourages those who are taking the first steps toward therapy and acknowledges the courage it takes to begin. She offers collaborative, strengths-focused support aimed at helping clients identify pathways forward and develop tools to manage the challenges they face.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Accessible Online Care

Tara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact to influence daily functioning. These approaches help people learn practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage panic, and address mood disorder symptoms by identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and building healthier coping responses.

She also applies relational and systems-oriented methods that examine patterns within relationships and family dynamics. This style of work can be especially useful for couples, parents, and families seeking to improve communication, set boundaries, and resolve conflicts.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Tara collaborates with clients to determine which techniques best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Clients are involved in choosing priorities and adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy with Tara is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility for varied schedules and life demands. These options make it easier for clients to access consistent care from home, during breaks, or while managing caregiving and work responsibilities.