Tara Wells , LCSW

Tara Wells is a licensed clinical social worker who combines practical therapeutic skills with a coaching mindset to help clients set goals and build clear pathways to progress. She holds the LCSW credential - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and brings years of experience working across clinical and community settings.

Her background includes work in substance use treatment, public schools serving grades 6 through 12, community field work, and roles supporting young adults and collegiate athletes. She also operates a small private practice and a mental coaching business focused on helping athletes access their competitive potential. In practice she often blends goal-focused strategies with supportive counseling to help people move toward concrete outcomes.

Tara has experience engaging with LGBTQ populations, multicultural concerns, and trauma-informed work. She prioritizes cultural humility and seeks to understand each client's unique background, recognizing the value of learning from clients' lived experiences. Her approach emphasizes collaboration, clear goal setting, and practical steps tailored to each person's needs.

She works with a range of issues including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, eating and body image concerns, addictions, relationship and family problems, grief, intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, gender dysphoria, and multicultural and prejudice-related concerns.

Please note that she is currently only accepting new members who are looking to message or chat for live scheduled sessions.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Tara Wells often uses client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and trauma-focused approaches to guide her online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on building a supportive, nonjudgmental working relationship and helps clients explore their feelings and values so they can find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to manage symptoms like anxiety, depression, and stress. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on understanding and processing the effects of traumatic experiences and on developing coping strategies to reduce trauma-related distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Tara collaborates with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors interventions based on each person's circumstances and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds so the work stays relevant and practical.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect with licensed professionals and therapists, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, maintain continuity of care during life changes, and access support from different locations while working with an approach that fits each client's life and needs.