About Tara
Tara Danks is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, life changes, and attention concerns. She aims to meet clients where they are and design plans that fit everyday life.
Tara keeps sessions straightforward and respectful. She listens first, then helps people sort priorities and try small steps that build toward better coping.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each person’s situation rather than following a one-size-fits-all script. Her work often addresses issues that show up across daily routines. That includes sleep and concentration problems, struggles with body image or eating, caregiver stress, and managing chronic illness or pain.
She also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose. Tara draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to the client’s needs. She partners with people who want practical strategies for managing mood, improving communication, or navigating major life events like pregnancy, fertility concerns, or military-related stress.
Sessions can include short-term focused work or longer-term support depending on goals. Her approach emphasizes clear goals, compassion, and small, achievable changes. She encourages people to take the first step and offers steady guidance along the way.
Evidence-Based Techniques and Online Care
Two common evidence-based techniques she uses are structured problem-solving and behavioral strategies. Structured problem-solving helps break larger problems into smaller steps and offers clear actions to try between sessions, which can reduce overwhelm and improve daily routines. Behavioral strategies focus on changing small habits around sleep, activity, or attention to produce steady improvement in mood and concentration.She also draws on skills-based work for managing anxiety and relationship communication. That work teaches specific tools for calming anxious thoughts, improving listening, and practicing new ways of speaking and responding in close relationships. These approaches are aimed at practical change rather than abstract discussion.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk through your goals, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps most. Clients and the clinician decide together which methods fit the person’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or communicate in brief moments during the day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English