Tara Wagner
Experienced LCSW focused on practical support
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tara
Tara Wagner is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Indiana. She brings 12 years of experience across inpatient and outpatient settings, medication-assisted treatment, and academic work. Tara focuses on practical help for people facing addiction, mood challenges, anxiety, and stress.
She aims to meet each person with respect and compassion and builds treatment around individual needs. Her approach begins by listening closely to what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
She uses methods that fit the situation, including cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and client-centered techniques. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused so progress is clear and concrete. Tara has worked with adults on issues that include grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, and struggles with self-esteem.
She also has experience addressing trauma, eating of addictive behaviors, bipolar and depressive disorders, and co-occurring conditions. That breadth helps when problems overlap or feel complicated. In therapy she will tailor conversations and plans to what the client wants to change.
Expect straightforward discussion, practical steps, and regular review of progress. Tara emphasizes each person’s inherent worth while helping them move toward healthier choices. Clients meet with Tara for support with coping skills, motivation for change, and clearer communication.
Her style blends empathy with real-world techniques to make daily life more manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting conversation. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflecting concerns and priorities so sessions match what matters most. This approach supports people who need a respectful, paced space to sort feelings and decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It breaks problems into smaller parts and teaches practical skills for coping with anxiety, depression, or stress. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and strengthens motivation when habits or addictions feel stuck.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tara collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, preferences, and current challenges. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to get support when travel or scheduling would otherwise be a barrier. Licensed professionals can use these tools to offer consistent care and to practice the same therapeutic approaches used in person.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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