About Tara
Tara Moran is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing addiction, trauma, grief, anxiety, mood concerns, ADHD, and phobias. Her style is practical and grounded, aimed at helping clients find steady ways forward when life feels overwhelming.
Tara blends evidence-based therapeutic techniques with creative practices. She often uses cognitive-behavioral ideas and skills for emotional regulation alongside mindfulness and expressive activities.
Background and approach
Sessions may include skill practice, gentle experiments, and creative exercises that match a person's needs and interests. Her background includes long experience in addiction treatment, trauma recovery, and grief work. That experience shapes how she supports people through major life transitions and loss.
She also helps with relationship and communication problems, control issues, and challenges around body image and self-esteem. Tara describes her work as rooted in authenticity and compassion. She draws on her own life experience with loss and recovery to connect with people who are struggling.
The aim is to help people build resilience and notice practical changes they can make between sessions. In sessions she focuses on clear, teachable skills and creative ways to practice them. Parents reading on a phone will find short, plain explanations and step-by-step suggestions rather than jargon.
People meet her for steady, approachable support when they need help managing emotions, cravings, panic, or overwhelming thoughts.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Many of the techniques Tara uses translate well to online care. Cognitive-behavioral approaches help people notice and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns through straightforward exercises and homework. These methods fit well into video or phone sessions where thought records and behavioral experiments can be reviewed together.Mindfulness practices are another common element and involve short guided exercises for attention and grounding. These can be delivered in a live session or through brief recorded practices that a person uses between meetings. Expressive activities, such as simple art-based tasks or nature-inspired exercises, are adapted so people can do them at home and then reflect with the therapist during a session.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, try concrete techniques, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to find methods that fit personality, lifestyle, and the specific issue being addressed.
Online formats offer flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared screen work for worksheets or exercises. Phone sessions suit people with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue progress from wherever a person happens to be.
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What this therapist works with
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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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