Tara Wells, LCSW

Tara Wells brings a decade of experience as a life coach and counselor and eight years as a social worker to her clinical work. She combines a small private practice with a mental coaching business aimed at athletes who want to access their competitive potential, and she has worked across a variety of settings including substance use facilities, public schools serving grades 6-12, community field work, with young adults, and within collegiate athletics.

Tara favors a goal-focused approach, partnering with clients to define clear objectives and practical pathways to reach them. Her clinical interests include work with LGBTQ+ populations, multicultural concerns, trauma and abuse, and a wide range of issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family challenges, eating and body image concerns, addictions, grief, intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.

She uses client-centered methods along with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness techniques, and trauma-focused interventions, adapting these approaches to each person’s needs. Tara also attends to attachment, codependency, communication problems, gender dysphoria, guilt and shame, HIV/AIDS related concerns, mood disorders, polyamory and non-monogamous relationships, prejudice and discrimination, self-harm, and building self-love.

Tara practices with cultural humility and strives to incorporate multicultural considerations into her work, especially when learning from clients whose experiences differ from her own. She provides services in English and holds the credential LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - which indicates professional training and a license to provide clinical social work services. She is currently accepting new members who are looking to message or chat for live scheduled sessions.