About Tara
Tara Brisnehan is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Arizona with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for day-to-day struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship or parenting challenges. Tara aims to give clear tools people can use between sessions.
She speaks English and works with clients from varied backgrounds, including international clients. Her style is direct and collaborative. Tara draws on client-centered therapy to follow each person's goals and priorities.
Background and approach
She blends cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking, and mindfulness skills to build calm and focus. Sessions often include concrete exercises and short skill-building practices clients can try right away. Tara has a background in human development and family studies and completed a master’s degree in counseling.
Her upbringing in a military family exposed her to many cultures and frequent life changes, which shaped her understanding of transitions and adjustment. That experience informs how she helps people manage change, grief, or disruption. She works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, anger, career questions, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Additional focuses include blended family issues, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, infidelity, and forgiveness. Tara aims to help people regain balance and move toward clearer goals. Therapy with Tara is practical and down-to-earth.
She emphasizes collaboration, small steps, and measurable skills. People who want straightforward strategies and gradual progress often find this approach helpful.
How Tara’s approaches translate to online therapy
Tara uses client-centered therapy to focus sessions on the client's goals and priorities. This approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people steer sessions toward what matters most to them. It works well for issues like relationship struggles, life transitions, and finding direction.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with change. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques add skills for managing intense emotions, handling conflict, and improving distress tolerance.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that make the most sense. If something isn't helping, adjustments are made to find a better fit.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client work face-to-face when a longer session is needed. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English