About Tara
Tara Brown is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma. She also supports people struggling with addictions, low self-esteem, grief, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and major life changes. Tara practices in Washington and brings eight years of clinical experience to her work.
She aims to build a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk honestly about hard things. Sessions focus on practical steps a person can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Tara listens first, then helps set clear goals that match each persons pace and priorities. Her approach blends client-centered care with skills-based techniques. She often draws on cognitive behavioral methods and mindfulness to reduce distress and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
When trauma is central, she may incorporate eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to address traumatic memories. Tara also uses dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotional regulation and coping tools. Motivational interviewing can help people increase their drive for change, especially around addiction or lifestyle goals.
Treatment is collaborative, with the therapist and client deciding which tools fit best. People who contact Tara can expect straightforward sessions that focus on daily improvements. She works to help clients build coping skills, strengthen self-respect, and move toward clearer goals.
The tone is practical and supportive throughout.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Tara commonly integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness into online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new, more helpful ways of thinking and behaving; it works well for anxiety, depression, and stress by giving concrete skills to practice between sessions. Mindfulness therapy teaches moment-to-moment awareness and simple attention exercises that reduce rumination and improve emotional balance, useful for anxiety, cravings, and mood symptoms.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy techniques when emotion regulation or intense reactions are a concern. DBT skills teach practical coping tools for managing strong feelings, improving relationships, and tolerating distress in the moment. Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort - the therapist will review goals, preferences, and symptom patterns and then try strategies together to see what fits best.
Online therapy with Tara is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for full sessions with visual cues while phone calls can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, skill reminders, or when typing helps people express themselves. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English