Tara Brown

Tara Brown is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington who helps people facing stress, anxiety, mood challenges, substance concerns, and life transitions. She works with teens and adults and offers a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk about hard things and figure out next steps.

With eight years of clinical experience, she supports people dealing with trauma, grief, low self-esteem, and difficulties such as ADHD, bipolar mood shifts, and parenting stress. She aims to help clients build motivation and stronger coping skills so they can manage daily pressures more easily.

Her style centers on listening first, then choosing practical tools together. She often uses mindfulness practices to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed. She also draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and from DBT skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

Tara has worked with issues related to post-traumatic stress, self-harm, social anxiety, and veteran and armed forces concerns. She may also use EMDR when it fits a client’s goals and history. Her approach blends what the person needs in the moment with skills that build longer-term resilience.

Tara describes therapy as a collaborative process. She helps clients set understandable goals, try strategies in session, and practice steps between meetings. The focus is on steady progress and on finding approaches that feel useful in everyday life.

How Tara’s approaches translate to online work

Mindfulness Therapy focuses on paying attention to the present moment and noticing thoughts and bodily sensations without judgment. It can help when anxiety, stress, or intense emotions make daily life harder by teaching calming attention practices and short exercises to use between sessions.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building a respectful relationship. The therapist follows the client’s lead, helps people clarify what matters to them, and supports self-directed change through empathic conversation.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses straightforward exercises to challenge unhelpful beliefs and to build new habits for mood and behavior management.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the person to match methods to goals, preferences, and what feels workable in day-to-day life. This may mean trying a few tools and adjusting as progress is made.

If you are considering online therapy, check the current session formats before booking so you know what is offered. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. They can also let people use exercises and mindfulness practices in the settings where they live and learn to apply new skills directly to everyday routines.