Tara Unadkat, AASW

Tara Unadkat is an AASW social worker and counsellor with 16 years' experience. She helps people facing family strains, grief, eating and parenting challenges, and the stress of life transitions. Tara aims to build confidence and practical coping skills so people feel more able to manage day-to-day pressures.

She has worked in hospitals, community health and mental health settings, and runs a private practice offering social welfare support and family-focused work. Tara uses straightforward conversations to identify what matters to each person and where small changes can make a difference. She focuses on skills that people can use between sessions as well as during them.

Tara draws on several approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, client-centred methods, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She adapts these methods to fit the person in front of her rather than applying a single model to everyone. Expect practical exercises, clear goal-setting and steady check-ins on progress.

People come to Tara for help with grief and loss, body image and eating concerns, caregiver stress, chronic health impacts, and relationship and communication problems. She also supports those dealing with adoption and foster care issues, abandonment, blended family dynamics, and separation or divorce.

Tara works in Australia and provides services in English. If someone is considering therapy, she encourages a short matching step to make sure her approach fits the person’s needs before scheduling sessions.

How Tara’s approaches can work online

Tara uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside client-centred techniques. ACT helps people clarify their values and learn simple skills to act on those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings, which can assist with grief, anxiety and adjusting to change. Attachment-Based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and can help with communication, trust and managing family tensions. Client-centred methods put the person’s experience at the centre of sessions and emphasise empathetic listening and collaborative goal-setting.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tara will talk with each person about their needs and preferences and help choose or blend methods that suit their goals. This is a collaborative process where the therapist and client review what helps and adjust the plan as they go.

The original profile does not specify which online formats are used, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around daily life, for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins between commitments, or avoiding the need to be on camera for every session. Appropriately qualified therapists can often adapt exercises, homework and practical skills for remote sessions so people can continue progress even when they cannot attend in person.