About Tara
Tara Fischer greets people with a calm, practical style aimed at easing overwhelm. She focuses on everyday concerns like stress, anxiety, parenting strain, and feeling stuck. Tara uses clear, goal-oriented work so conversations lead to real steps forward.
Tara is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, based in Wisconsin with six years of experience. She draws on client-centered work to meet people where they are. She also uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach coping skills and change unhelpful patterns.
How Tara works
Sessions tend to be collaborative and straightforward. Tara listens for what matters most to each person and helps set small, manageable goals. She pays attention to emotional, mental, and practical needs rather than focusing only on labels or diagnoses.
Her background includes supporting people who have lived with ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Tara also offers help around issues such as adoption and foster care transitions, postpartum depression, eating concerns, and experiences of sexual assault and domestic violence. In therapy she mixes solution-focused strategies with skills training so clients leave with tools to use between sessions.
The work aims to build self-understanding, reduce distressing symptoms, and strengthen everyday coping. Tara approaches each person as more than a diagnosis and helps them move toward clearer goals.
Tara lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Tara works with
The areas below are the ones Tara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's priorities and building a working relationship around those goals. In online sessions this means conversations begin with what matters to the client and adapt to their pace and preferences.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns. Online CBT sessions often include short exercises, homework, and skill practice between meetings to reinforce learning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose or combine methods based on goals, challenges, and comfort with different formats. That collaboration may mean focusing on skill training, problem solving, or deeper emotional processing as needed.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful when face-to-face interaction helps the conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are suited to quick check-ins, brief coaching between sessions, or people who express themselves better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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