Tara McBrearty

Tara McBrearty is a licensed clinical social worker in California (CA LCSW 27798) with 30 years of experience supporting people through difficult life transitions.

She provides a space for exploring emotional landscapes while helping individuals strengthen their sense of self and expand their capacity to manage change. Over three decades she has assisted people in sorting through relationship conflicts, understanding barriers to intimacy, re-discovering enthusiasm for life, building trust in themselves and others, and moving past obstacles to career growth and accomplishment.

A cooperative and tolerant approach guides her work and shapes the professional relationship she offers, creating an atmosphere that encourages freedom and creativity within sessions. She recognizes the courage required to take pivotal steps toward purpose and fulfillment and welcomes the opportunity to support and empower that journey.

Her practice addresses relationships, intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, career concerns, coping with life changes, stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, sleeping difficulties, and depression. She identifies as a female, older, liberal therapist.

Her perspective has been influenced by the writings of Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, Piaget, Carl Rogers, and Adi Da Samraj, and by trainings with Virginia Satire, Michael White, Gabor Mate, Ellyn Bader, John and Julie Gottman, William R. Miller, and David Whyte.