Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Coaching
How Tara works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Tara
Tara Wells is a Florida-based licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and other life challenges. She brings eight years of social work experience and a decade of coaching and counseling practice to her online work. Tara aims to make the first step feel straightforward and understandable for people seeking help.
Tara often focuses on clear goals and practical steps. She helps people set realistic targets and maps out small actions they can take between sessions.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in substance use settings, public schools, community field work, and collegiate athletics, which shaped a flexible approach to different life situations. She spends time learning about each person's cultural background and life context. Tara practices cultural humility and listens for how identity and culture affect feelings and choices.
That attention guides how she tailors sessions and suggests tools. In sessions she blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral and mindfulness strategies. This mix lets her address upsetting thoughts, manage strong emotions like anger, and teach calming skills people can use daily.
Trauma-focused approaches are available when past harm affects current functioning. Tara also works with people on relationship patterns, body image, grief, and coping with life changes. She offers coaching-style support for motivation and performance, including work with athletes.
Her style is direct, practical, and collaborative to help people move toward the life they want.
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
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Coaching
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tara lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Tara’s approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's goals. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns, and helps people clarify what change looks like for them. This approach helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to set personal goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. Tara uses CBT techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to build alternative responses. This is useful for anxiety, anger, and mood challenges because it gives concrete tools to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss the options and adapt methods based on a client's needs, goals, and preferences. Together they will try techniques and adjust what isn’t working until a good fit emerges.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and communication styles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat works for shorter check-ins or when a written record of ideas helps. These options make it possible to keep momentum and fit therapy into a busy life.
Questions people ask about Tara
What concerns does Tara commonly address?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, anger, mood concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and client-centered, combining cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and trauma-focused work to teach coping skills and reduce distress.
How much experience does she have?
She has eight years as a social worker and about ten years total in coaching and counseling roles across clinical and athletic settings.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing from Florida, holding the FL LCSW credential.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for scheduled or ongoing work.
How does pricing work for her services?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.