Tara Wagner, LCSW

Tara Wagner is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Indiana with 12 years of professional experience. She has worked in inpatient and outpatient settings, medication-assisted treatment programs, and academic environments. Tara focuses on practical work in sessions and aims to meet people where they are. Tara helps people who are coping with addictions, trauma and abuse, and motivation struggles. She also supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, grief, anger, and stress. She works with issues around relationships, intimacy, parenting, self-esteem, and identity concerns for LGBT clients. Her approach is individualized. Tara listens first, then tailors the plan to each person’s needs. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in the way she talks and plans treatment. Clinically, Tara uses Client-Centered methods alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. She also draws from Psychodynamic ideas and Solution-Focused techniques depending on what a person needs. That mix allows her to address both current habits and deeper patterns. Tara has experience treating co-occurring conditions and has helped people with substance use and behavioral addictions, dissociation, attachment and personality-related issues, codependency, and violence-related trauma. She aims to make each session useful and understandable. If you’re ready to begin, she encourages the first step and will work with you to build a plan that fits your life.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Tara draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing alongside Client-Centered work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and everyday habits to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Motivational Interviewing helps people clarify what they want to change and builds motivation for steps like reducing substance use or improving routines. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and working at a person’s pace to explore identity, relationships, and self-worth.

Choosing the right approach is something the therapist does together with the client. Tara will talk about goals, try a method, and adjust based on what feels useful. That collaborative process helps match tools to a person’s needs and preferences rather than locking into a single technique.

Session formats supported by Tara were not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. They also let people use tools like thought records or worksheets between meetings to work on everyday habits. If you want to learn which session formats are offered, check the booking details when you start the matching process.