Tara Schoeller

Tara Schoeller is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience across schools, clinics, and private practice. She holds a Master of Social Work from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Social Work from the College of St. Catherine's. Tara brings a calm, down-to-earth presence to sessions and aims to build trusting relationships with the people she sees.

Her style is collaborative and non-judgmental. She focuses on practical goal work while also helping people notice and use their strengths. Sessions include active listening, gentle challenge, and tools people can use between meetings.

Tara draws on a mix of approaches including cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based perspective, dialectical behavior strategies, and client-centered methods. She adapts methods to fit each person’s needs rather than following a single formula.

Common concerns she helps address are stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, relationship and family conflict, grief, career questions, ADHD challenges, addictions, anger, and self-esteem issues. Additional focus areas include caregiving stress, blended family problems, body image, codependency, and life purpose questions.

Tara aims to make therapy straightforward and useful. She emphasizes building self-awareness, practical coping skills, and clearer communication. People who want a collaborative, strength-focused approach often find her style a good match.

How her approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters most and take small steps toward those values. It tends to be useful for anxiety, life changes, and feeling stuck. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape trust and connection; it can help with relationship or parenting strains. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which often helps with depression and anxiety.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Tara will collaborate with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts methods over time, testing what helps and shifting course if something isn’t working. That collaborative stance helps people feel involved rather than told what to do.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking since specific formats are not listed here. Ask about the available options and how they fit your routine. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people use tools learned in sessions in their day-to-day settings, which can speed up progress.