About Tara
Tara Cochran Grall draws on two decades of counseling experience and a client-centered approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and major life changes. She is an LPCC and an LPC practicing in Mississippi and aims to make therapy clear and practical for worried parents and adults. She focuses on everyday problems like parenting strain, relationship conflict, grief, and low self-esteem.
Tara pays attention to how early bonds shape current relationships, and she uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand patterns that repeat over time.
Background and approach
She also uses trauma-focused methods when past hurts interfere with daily life. Sessions emphasize simple skills, steady support, and real-world coping strategies. She works with issues connected to family life such as blended family challenges, adoption and foster care concerns, and divorce or separation stress.
Communication problems, codependency, and forgiveness work are part of her practice when these topics come up. She also helps people cope with compassion fatigue and isolation. Tara integrates a Christian perspective when clients want that reflected in sessions.
That influence is offered as one element of care alongside therapeutic techniques, not as a replacement for clinical work. Her aim is to respect each person’s beliefs while helping them move toward clearer goals. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Tara focuses on small, manageable changes that build confidence over time. People leave sessions with practical steps they can use at home and in relationships.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships affect current connections. Online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to notice patterns and try new ways of relating that reduce conflict and improve trust.Trauma-Focused Therapy targets the lasting impact of past hurt and overwhelming events. In remote sessions this looks like paced processing, grounding techniques, and relearning safety in everyday routines to reduce flashbacks, nightmares, and high anxiety.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to the person rather than forcing one style on everyone.
Online formats provide flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people read facial cues and do longer conversations, while phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for frequent check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or when writing helps someone process thoughts. These options make it easier to use therapeutic approaches consistently over time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Alabama, Ohio, Nebraska
- Languages
- English