Tara Unadkat, AASW
16 years in practice
Tara Unadkat is an AASW clinical social worker and counsellor with 16 years' experience.
License and registration
- AASW
- 497620 · expires June 2026
- AASW
- 497620 · expires June 2026
- Years in practice
- 16
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Tara
Tara Unadkat is an AASW clinical social worker and counsellor with 16 years' experience. She works with people facing family conflict, grief, eating concerns, parenting challenges and major life changes. Her style is calm and practical and she aims to help people feel more capable and confident.
Tara has worked in hospitals, community health and mental health services. She also runs a independent practice that combines social welfare support with counselling.
Background and approach
This mix gives her a broad view of how practical issues and emotional worries interact. In sessions she focuses on building everyday skills and emotional resilience. Conversations are tailored to each person's needs and paced so people can try new ways of coping.
She uses techniques that help clients manage anxiety, relationship strain, carer stress, grief and eating difficulties. Tara describes therapy as a partnership. She helps people identify goals and then practises skills with them so changes carry over into daily life.
That approach aims to make people feel more in control of their choices and routines. She brings sensitivity and respect to difficult topics such as loss, separation and chronic illness. Tara aims to create a straightforward, compassionate environment where practical steps and emotional support go together.
People who want clear strategies and steady support often find her approach useful. She welcomes questions about how therapy will fit into each person’s life and helps map out realistic next steps.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Tara lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Tara names
- Hypnotherapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and major life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people try new ways of relating and communicating. It can be helpful for carers, people dealing with abandonment or attachment concerns. Hypnotherapy uses focused attention and guided imagery to support relaxation and help people access different ways of thinking about habits or strong emotional responses; it is sometimes used alongside talking therapies for issues like eating concerns or anxiety.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist will talk about what matters to the client, try out methods, and adapt plans as progress is made. That collaborative stance helps match techniques to each person's goals and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful for full conversations and non-verbal cues while phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing contact and quick check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Tara work with?
Tara helps people navigate family conflict, grief, eating issues, parenting stress and coping with life changes. She also focuses on related areas such as abandonment, attachment issues, caregiver stress and chronic illness.
What is her therapeutic approach like?
Her work is practical and collaborative, using client-centred conversation alongside approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Sessions focus on skills and steps people can use between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
She has sixteen years' professional experience working across hospitals, community health and mental health settings and in independent practice.
What credential and location information is relevant?
Tara is listed as AASW and practises in Australia. Her background includes clinical social work across public and personal settings.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She is not currently taking international clients.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging depending on client preference.
How do fees and getting started work?
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