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Tara Watts, LCSW

  • Experience20 years
  • LocationPennsylvania
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Family
  • Therapy approachesCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Motivational Interviewing
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About Tara

Tara Watts is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with twenty years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, trauma, and related concerns including ADHD. She draws on a strengths-based, person-centered stance that emphasizes practical strategies and resilience rather than labels.

Background and approach

Tara blends trauma-informed care with evidence-based tools to address how symptoms affect daily life and functioning. Her practice integrates cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, solution-focused methods, and trauma-focused interventions to create tailored plans aimed at clear goals.

She has worked with individuals, couples, and families on issues such as parenting difficulties, blended family dynamics, communication problems, caregiver stress, addictions, and compassion fatigue. Tara emphasizes collaborative goal-setting and steady skill-building so clients can experience measurable change and improved coping.

Based in Pennsylvania, she maintains a commitment to ongoing professional development and keeps her work focused on clients' lived experience and practical outcomes. Tara aims to meet people where they are, companion them through the process of change, and support growth that fits each person’s needs and life circumstances.

Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Care

Many clients benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors to improve mood and functioning. This approach is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and many day-to-day challenges. Motivational interviewing helps people explore ambivalence and find internal motivation to make changes, which can be especially useful for addictions, behavior change, and readiness for new routines.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to assess needs, set goals, and choose or blend methods that fit the person’s preferences and circumstances. That collaborative tailoring helps ensure sessions remain focused and practical while adapting over time as goals evolve.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing clients to access care from home or other convenient locations. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and use the communication style that feels most comfortable for the client.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Tara address?
She works with a broad range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
What is her therapeutic style and approach?
Her approach is strengths-based, person-centered, solution-focused, and trauma-informed, using methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and trauma-focused work to help clients set goals and build skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has twenty years of experience practicing as a clinician, working with individuals, couples, and families across a range of concerns and life stages.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Pennsylvania with the credential PA LCSW CW016180.
What languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are conducted in English, and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
Which session formats are offered?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are required to start therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseGriefDepression

Also works with

AddictionsRelationship issuesParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCoping with life changesCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

Blended family issuesCaregiver issues and stressCommunication problemsFamily problemsWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Motivational InterviewingSolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

20+ years

Licensed

Pennsylvania

Languages

English

What Tara can help with

Tara Watts works with clients on stress and anxiety, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression.

Tara works with individuals, couples, and families.

Tara works with clients of varying ages.

How Tara approaches therapy

Tara's clinical approaches include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy.

Tara uses motivational interviewing.

Experience and training

Tara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Pennsylvania, with 20 years of clinical experience.