Tara Jenkins, LCSW
Licensed in Pennsylvania · 10 years in practice
Tara Jenkins is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and relationship struggles.
License and registration
- LCSW, Pennsylvania
- CW024456 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1235737412 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
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About Tara
Tara Jenkins is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and relationship struggles. She speaks plainly and works with clients to build practical skills for everyday life. Her style is warm and attentive, aimed at making hard topics easier to talk about.
Tara combines several well-known approaches to help people feel more stable and in control. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current ones.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to break unhelpful thinking patterns and teach new coping skills. Mindfulness practices are used to help clients stay grounded when emotions feel overwhelming. She has ten years of experience working in Pennsylvania and brings that background into each session.
That experience includes support for people dealing with grief, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and substance use concerns. She also addresses issues like body image, guilt and shame, and difficulties with communication. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and small steps clients can practice between meetings.
Conversations often include role-play for communication, planning for cravings or mood dips, and short mindfulness exercises. She aims to help people leave sessions with one or two concrete actions to try. Tara takes a culturally aware approach and listens for how background and identity shape each person’s experience.
She helps people explore life purpose, work through feelings of isolation, and repair trust after infidelity or abandonment. Her work is collaborative and tailored to each person’s priorities.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Tara lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tara names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections. Online sessions can use this approach to help people notice triggers and practice new ways of relating in real time. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It works well online because homework, thought records, and skill practice can be shared and reviewed between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple exercises to calm the nervous system and increase present-moment awareness; these short practices translate easily to phone or video check-ins.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, what has or hasn’t helped before, and how you prefer to work. From there she and the client decide collaboratively which methods to emphasize and how to adapt them for remote sessions.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and practice conversations together. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short updates, homework check-ins, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep steady progress between meetings.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Tara address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship issues, and parenting strain. She also supports people facing grief, compassion fatigue, body image concerns, and mood challenges.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is warm and practical. She blends attachment ideas, client-centered listening, CBT skills, and mindfulness to help people set concrete goals.
How much experience does she bring?
Tara has ten years of clinical experience working with people on a range of life stressors and emotional concerns in Pennsylvania.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential (LCSW) and practices in Pennsylvania.
Which languages and international clients are supported?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on needs and preferences.
How much does therapy cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
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