About Tara
Tara Wagner is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Indiana with 12 years of professional experience. She has worked across inpatient and outpatient settings, medication-assisted treatment programs, and academic environments. Tara focuses on meeting people where they are and treating each person with respect and compassion.
She helps people address addictions and co-occurring substance and mental health concerns. She also supports those coping with trauma, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and issues that affect self-esteem.
How Tara works
Her experience includes work with people facing relationship and intimacy-related struggles, parenting stress, grief, and anger concerns. Tara adapts her approach to the needs of each person. She uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing to build practical coping skills.
She also draws on psychodynamic and solution-focused ideas when exploring patterns and moving toward goals. In sessions she aims to create straightforward, goal-oriented conversations. That can mean learning concrete strategies for managing anxiety, talking through patterns that keep someone stuck, or setting small steps toward recovery from addiction.
Tara emphasizes the inherent worth of each person and works collaboratively to shape a plan that fits individual circumstances. Her background in medication-assisted treatment and various clinical settings gives her familiarity with complex and co-morbid presentations. She works in English and bases her recommendations on each person’s goals, strengths, and life situation.
Tara lists 5 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
How Tara’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person’s lead. It helps when someone needs acceptance, a sounding board, and guidance toward goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change patterns that cause distress. That approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Motivational Interviewing concentrates on building a person’s own reasons for change and is often used with substance use and readiness-related concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tara collaborates with each person to decide which combination of methods fits their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time, checking in about what is working and what needs to change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people read facial cues and have a fuller session, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat can work for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit care into busy schedules and different day-to-day rhythms.
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