About Tara
Tara Boerner is a licensed marriage and family therapist who uses evidence-based techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, and life transitions. She brings 16 years of clinical experience and a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions.
Background and approach
Tara emphasizes clients' strengths and works with them to set clear, achievable goals. Her work covers relationship concerns and family conflict, along with grief and loss.
She also helps people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues. Parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, and career worries are other common topics she addresses.
Tara pays attention to mood disorders such as bipolar conditions, panic disorder and social anxiety. She also supports people dealing with caregiver strain, guilt and shame, loneliness, and workplace problems.
Her approach aims to break problems into manageable steps so progress feels doable. Sessions focus on practical strategies and honest conversation.
Clients can expect to talk through what feels most urgent and practice skills they can use between meetings. Tara treats each person as the expert on their life and helps them build on what already works.
She practices in California and draws on years of experience across many settings. Tara encourages people to take the first step, fill out a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session when ready.
Practical approaches and online care that fit your life
Evidence-based techniques Tara uses focus on concrete skills and thinking patterns that change how people cope. One common approach teaches ways to identify unhelpful thoughts and try more balanced thinking; this can help with anxiety, panic attacks, and low mood. Another approach emphasizes building small behavior changes and routines to reduce stress, manage mood swings like those in bipolar conditions, and improve day-to-day functioning.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Tara will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they will try techniques, track what helps, and adjust the plan over time so work in sessions connects to real life.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is hard. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or easier when being on camera is not desired. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing skill practice, and flexible communication between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent therapeutic work into a daily routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California