I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Certified Family Mediator, and Certified Divorce Coach. I work with individuals, couples, and families dealing with mental health issues, relational issues, and life transitions. I have been working within the mental health community for many years and has created an effective skillset to help individuals and couples grow beyond their current personal and relational struggles towards having a ‘life worth living’.

 

Tara’s areas of focus include the following:

• Relational conflict and communication skills to recover and deepen intimacy in key relationships

• Relationship styles and creating new dialogues

• Barriers to life satisfaction and emotional intimacy such as trauma, attachment issues, family of origin issues, addiction & recovery issues

• Decision-making and stages of grief and change

• Ending relationships gracefully

• Separation Mediation

• Parenting decisions and agreements

 

Tara’s skills and ongoing training include (but are by far not limited to):

• Interpersonal Neurobiology

• Emotion Focused Family Therapy-Advanced Training

• Relational Life Therapy-Level 1 Training

• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

• Feminist Perspectives

• Existential Psychology

• Conflict Resolution/Interests Based Mediation

• Life/Divorce Coaching

• 12 Steps

• Buddhist Psychology

• Yoga

 

Tara is rooted in the firm belief that we all have the potential to live our best lives and would like to help you discover and realize what that means for you!