About Tara
Tara Fischer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and issues related to trauma and relationships. Tara aims to meet people where they are and help them build practical skills for day-to-day life.
Tara uses a client-centered approach that puts the person's goals and perspective first. She blends ideas from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach tools for managing emotions, changing unhelpful thoughts, and improving coping.
Background and approach
Solution-focused strategies help people try small, achievable steps between sessions. Her background includes work in several clinical settings where she supported people facing mood concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, and identity-related issues. She has experience with autism, adoption and foster care situations, and other complex family challenges.
That range helps her tailor sessions to the needs a person brings. In a session Tara listens for strengths and practical next steps. Conversations are intended to be direct and compassionate, with skills practice and short-term goals when useful.
She encourages people to use their own insight as a guide while testing new coping strategies. Tara offers multiple online session formats so people can choose what fits their life. She works in English and practices from a trauma-aware, person-focused perspective to support growth and clearer daily functioning.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's perspective and priorities. It involves listening closely, reflecting what matters to you, and shaping sessions around your goals. This approach helps when someone needs a space to sort through values, identity, or relationship questions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical tools to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and managing day-to-day stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tara will collaborate with each person to decide which ideas to try first, then adjust methods based on progress and preference. That collaborative testing helps people see what fits their life and goals.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful for a fuller interaction and skills practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging lets someone check in between sessions or use brief coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit short-term skill building and longer conversations into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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