Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Compassion fatigue
How Tara works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Licensed in
- Minnesota, Montana
- Years in practice
- 16
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Tara
Tara Ashley is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a collaborative, person-focused approach to help people manage stress, anger, anxiety, and big life changes. She holds a Montana LCSW and a Minnesota LICSW and brings 16 years of experience to her work in Montana. She helps people talk through relationship struggles, grief, and issues tied to trauma and abuse.
She also supports those facing parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and career-related stress.
Background and approach
Tara works with people dealing with depression, bipolar challenges, low self-esteem, and sleep problems. Her sessions often include practical skills from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness practices that people can use between meetings. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients notice what matters most and move toward those values.
Conversations are warm and focused on real-life goals rather than jargon. Tara has a particular interest in supporting women through pregnancy, childbirth, and career transitions. She also helps people navigate divorce and separation, financial stress, and feelings of isolation or shame.
Her experience includes helping people process post-traumatic stress and build steady coping plans. People who choose her can expect a respectful, paced process that centers their priorities. She works with each person to set clear steps and measurable goals.
Sessions aim to leave clients with concrete strategies to try between appointments.
What Tara works with
Everything Tara lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Tara's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Women's issues
Approaches Tara lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach and options for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for stress, anger, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the person sets the pace and goals of work.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try approaches that match those needs. This collaborative process lets people adjust methods over time if something isn’t helping.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video works well for in-depth sessions and skills practice, phone is useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and messaging or live chat can support shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options give flexibility for different days and needs while keeping the focus on steady progress.
Questions people ask about Tara
What concerns does she commonly address?
Tara regularly works with people facing stress, anxiety, anger, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, sleep problems, self-esteem issues, depression, bipolar challenges, and career or life changes.
What is her general therapeutic style?
She takes a collaborative, person-centered approach that combines practical skills from cognitive behavioral work with mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas. Sessions focus on clear goals and usable strategies.
How much experience does she have?
She has 16 years of clinical experience working with adults on a range of mental health and life concerns in Montana and surrounding contexts.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds a Montana LCSW and a Minnesota LICSW and practices in Montana.
Which languages are supported and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different schedules and needs.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to start therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.