Tara Wagner, LCSW

Tara Wagner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Indiana with 12 years of professional experience. She has worked in inpatient and outpatient settings, medication-assisted treatment programs, and academic environments. Tara helps people facing addictions, trauma and abuse, mood concerns, anxiety, and challenges with self-esteem and motivation.

Her approach is practical and direct. She adapts sessions to each person's needs and focuses on clear steps you can take between meetings. Conversations often address coping skills, motivation for change, and reducing symptoms that get in the way of daily life.

Tara has regular experience treating co-occurring conditions, including substance use and mental health concerns such as depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety. She also works with problems related to relationships, intimacy, parenting, grief, and anger. Additional focus areas listed include attachment and personality concerns, dissociation, codependency, and work with BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture.

In sessions she draws on Client-Centered methods, solution-focused work, cognitive behavioral strategies, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic ideas. That mix lets her combine short-term goal work with attention to longer patterns that affect behavior.

People who choose her often want straightforward, skills-based help alongside attention to deeper causes. To start, she asks about current concerns, what has worked before, and pragmatic steps that fit everyday life. The first session is used to set goals and a simple plan for moving forward.

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