Tara McBrearty, LCSW

Tara McBrearty is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California with 30 years of experience helping people navigate major life transitions and relational challenges. She creates a supportive, cooperative atmosphere that encourages clients to explore their emotional landscape, clarify values, and strengthen their capacity to manage change. By blending practical problem solving with an openness to personal growth, she assists individuals in resolving conflicts in relationships, addressing barriers to intimacy, rebuilding trust in themselves and others, and overcoming obstacles to career development.

Her work emphasizes tolerance, creativity, and collaboration, offering a professional tone that aims to foster freedom within sessions and promote self discovery. She understands the courage required to take pivotal steps toward purpose and fulfillment and welcomes the opportunity to support and empower that process. Over the course of her career she has worked with concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, sleep difficulties, self esteem, and issues related to attachment, abandonment, blended families, caregiving stress, commitment, communication, control, dissociation, emptiness, family of origin, forgiveness, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and isolation.

Tara draws on a wide range of influences and trainings, including the writings of Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, Piaget, Carl Rogers, and Adi Da Samraj, as well as trainings associated with Virginia Satire, Michael White, Gabor Maté, Ellyn Bader, John and Julie Gottman, William R. Miller, and David Whyte. This breadth of influence informs a thoughtful, person-centered approach to therapy.