Tara is a licensed psychotherapist, consultant, and business owner with nearly three decades of experience in mental health and academic settings. She has served in multiple leadership roles and has been an adjunct faculty member at Adler Graduate School.

For the past six years, Tara has owned and operated a private practice that integrates therapy, coaching, and consulting into a cohesive developmental model. Her work meets individuals and organizations across the full spectrum of need — from personal healing to professional expansion and systemic leadership.

Tara  is certified by the Board of Behavioral Health and the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy to provide clinical oversight to practicing mental health professionals pursuing full licensure. Her private practice has hosted a number of  graduate interns in collaboration with the University of Minnesota, the University of St. Thomas, Adler Graduate School,Capella  and Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, supporting the development of professional competence, ethical integrity, and clinical confidence.

Tara facilitates high-level conversations on leadership, trust, personality dynamics, culture, and inner direction, strengthening relational effectiveness.

Her career and lived experience position her at the intersection of mental well-being, transformative leadership, and mission-aligned systems. She partners with leaders and institutions to align vision, culture, and operational practice for sustained impact.

Through decades of clinical practice and entrepreneurship, Tara has come to understand that sustainable success does not begin with strategy alone, but with inner direction. Authenticity, responsibility, and groundedness form the foundation of meaningful leadership and lasting stability. When individuals and organizations operate from this center, growth and resilience emerge not as performance, but as embodied practice.

Outside of her professional life, Tara considers some of her most meaningful roles to be that of hockey mom, novice paddle boarder, nature enthusiast, devoted Audible listener, and unofficial member of the stargazers club.