About Tara
Tara Moran is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of experience supporting people through addiction, trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She draws on practical skills and creative tools to help clients build steadiness when life feels chaotic. Her approach aims to be direct, compassionate, and user-friendly for worried parents reading on a phone.
Tara focuses on helping people develop real skills for managing strong emotions and impulsive behavior.
Background and approach
She often combines talk-based work with simple practices like mindful breathing and expressive activities. The goal is to make change feel doable rather than overwhelming. Her background includes long-term work in addiction treatment and trauma recovery, and she has supported people coping with postpartum depression, panic attacks, and complicated grief.
Tara also addresses issues like body image, self-harm, and problem behaviors linked to impulse control. Many clients find the mix of practical strategies and creative outlets helpful. Tara emphasizes building routines, improving communication, and strengthening coping tools that hold up during stress.
She encourages small experiments that can lead to bigger changes over time. Tara works from New Jersey and offers sessions in English. She aims to meet people where they are and to create a calm, nonjudgmental space for steady progress.
Practical therapeutic methods for online care
Dialectical Behavior Therapy style skills focus on teaching emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. These are practical steps someone can practice between sessions to reduce impulsive reactions and handle heated moments more calmly.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques look at thoughts and behaviors to identify small changes that can shift mood and anxiety. This approach is useful for panic attacks, mood disorders, and the day-to-day patterns that maintain stress and low self-esteem.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to figure out which strategies fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That can mean trying different techniques over a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversations and guided exercises, while phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Text or live chat can support brief check-ins, skill practice, or steps between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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