Tara works with adults (18+ years), helping them build and consolidate skills to improve mental health, adjust to change, and maximise their potential. She has over 17 years of clinical experience helping individuals with:

1.Anxiety and depression. In relation to anxiety, Tara has a special interest with chronic worrying/Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety, and Health Anxiety. She helps individuals experiencing depression improve their mood and quality of life.

2. Low self-esteem. Self-esteem affects so many areas of our lives, including how we show up at work, our friendships and romantic relationships, and even perfectionism. Tara works with individuals to help explore the origins of low self-esteem and to build skills to break the hold of low self-esteem.

3. Adjustment to life events, including chronic pain, work-related difficulties, health challenges, grief, and loss, parenting, and relationship breakdowns. Tara helps those who feel overwhelmed by life’s challenges to adjust and boost their resilience. She recognises that changing circumstances have a wide-ranging impact, from identity shifts and changes to routine, to impacted social and financial situations.

4.. Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Tara helps individuals process their trauma experience in a safe therapeutic space, as well as building skills to self-soothe and regulate intense emotions by helping them understand trauma and its effects on the brain and body. She also helps address other areas of life impacted by trauma, including relationships, self-care, and changed views of themselves and the world in light of the traumatic experience. Tara is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), an evidence-based treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

5. Burnout and building positive wellbeing. Tara helps those affected by issues such as perfectionism, poor work-life balance, stress and burnout, to boost their health and wellbeing, strengthen coping skills, and live a life that is meaningful and consistent with their values.

6. Alcohol and drug misuse. Having worked extensively with individuals with alcohol and drug misuse in community settings, Tara is experienced in helping individuals build skills to either minimise harm from their use, or to completely abstain from use. Tara also helps individuals work on the underlying reasons for use (e.g. anxiety, grief, trauma, guilt) and develop more positive coping strategies to deal with distress.

7. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Tara can help adults with ADHD, from those who received their diagnosis early in life to those adjusting to a new diagnosis in adulthood. She works with individuals to understanding the impact of ADHD and how it presents in adulthood, skill building, and addressing issues commonly seen together with ADHD including low self-esteem, anxiety, depression and regulating emotions.

Tara is trained in different therapeutic approaches and focuses on evidence-based modalities such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution-focused Therapy (SFT), and Eye movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).

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Tara trained at Curtin University where she gained her Bachelor of Science (with first class Honours), Master of Counselling Psychology, and Doctor of Philosophy. Her PhD research looked at the link between Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and illicit drug use in adults. She has over 17 years of experience as a Counselling Psychologist in clinical and forensic settings.

 Tara’s clinic days are Tuesday and Wednesday.

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