About Tara
Tara Schoeller is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 25 years of experience to her practice in Georgia. She holds a Master of Social Work from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Social Work from the College of St. Catherine's.
Tara works in a straightforward, down-to-earth manner and focuses on building a trusting relationship with each person she sees. Tara helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and issues around self-esteem and life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports people living with ADHD and those coping with addictions or compassion fatigue. Her work often addresses relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, and career-related stress. Her sessions are collaborative and client-centered.
Tara listens first, then helps identify practical steps that match a person's goals and values. She draws on problem-solving and skills-based methods so people leave with tools they can try between sessions. Tara integrates approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness in an individualized way.
She emphasizes strengths and motivation while keeping conversations clear and goal-oriented. People describe her style as compassionate and nonjudgmental. Tara aims to meet each person where they are and to help build awareness, coping strategies, and practical changes that make daily life easier.
Evidence-informed approaches offered online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with worry, low mood, and impulsivity. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build healthier ways of relating and communicating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tara will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That plan can change over time as priorities shift or new challenges emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins or when someone prefers shorter, written exchanges. These options make it easier to schedule consistent appointments and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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