- Family concerns
- Grief and loss
- Eating issues
About Tara
Tara Unadkat is an AASW clinical social worker and counsellor in Australia with 16 years of professional experience. She has worked in hospitals, community health and mental health services, and runs a private practice. Tara focuses on family concerns, grief, eating and parenting struggles, and coping with life changes.
She helps people manage anxiety, relationship stress and carer strain. Tara also works with perinatal mental health, trauma, grief and loss, and eating and food-related issues. Her work includes supporting people with attachment and abandonment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and blended family challenges.
In sessions she focuses on building practical skills and emotional coping strategies. Her approach is grounded in methods such as acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioural techniques and attachment-based ideas. She also draws on client-centred and dialectical behaviour therapy elements to help people learn resilience and self-confidence.
Tara combines clinical experience across health settings with social welfare knowledge. That background informs how she helps people navigate systems as well as personal struggles. She aims to work with clients to set clear goals and develop step-by-step plans for change.
People who contact Tara usually want straightforward conversations about next steps. She asks about practical needs as well as emotional patterns, and then works collaboratively to develop tools that can be used between sessions. Her practice supports people making changes after loss, separation or major life shifts.
Approaches used in online sessions and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasises noticing difficult thoughts and feelings and choosing actions that reflect personal values. It can help when guilt or shame stop someone from moving forward. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavioural experiments. This is useful for changing thinking patterns that maintain guilt and for developing clearer coping strategies.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, and help decide which methods to try first. That collaborative process means approaches can be adapted as progress and challenges become clearer.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Therapists can use skills practice, behavioural experiments and value-based planning in virtual sessions to support people managing guilt, shame and life changes.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
16+ years
Listed in
Australia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of issues does she work with?
She works with family concerns, grief, eating and parenting issues, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include attachment, abandonment, carer stress and relationship problems.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style blends acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioural techniques, attachment-based ideas and client-centred methods. Dialectical behaviour therapy skills are also used for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
How much experience does she have?
She has 16 years of professional experience across hospitals, community health and mental health settings, and in private practice.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an AASW clinical social worker and counsellor based in Australia.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients at this time.
Which session formats are available?
The biography does not specify session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.