Tara Unadkat, AASW

Tara Unadkat is an AASW social worker and counsellor with 16 years of experience. She helps people facing family stress, grief, eating concerns, parenting pressures and big life changes. Her style is calm and practical, aimed at building confidence and everyday coping skills.

She has worked across hospitals, community health and mental health settings before opening a private practice. That mix of roles means she is familiar with social welfare systems and the kinds of pressures families and carers often face. Tara uses practical steps that people can try between sessions.

Tara draws on a range of approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to address thinking and behaviour patterns, and Attachment-Based ideas to repair relationships. She also works from client-centred and dialectical behaviour perspectives when helpful.

In sessions she focuses on building resilience and self-confidence. Conversations are tailored to the person and their goals. Tara supports people to learn skills that reduce overwhelm and help them manage everyday demands.

People seeking help with caregiving stress, chronic illness or cancer-related concerns will find someone familiar with those issues in her background. Tara emphasises respect, sensitivity and step-by-step planning as part of an ongoing process of improvement.

How therapy approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It can help when anxiety, chronic illness or life change make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and gives practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and eating-related worries. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape trust and emotion, and it can help repair strained connections between people.

Finding the best approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work with the client to try methods that match their goals and preferences, and adjust the plan as things change. That collaborative stance helps people feel more confident about the direction of their work.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, or letting someone join from a quieter place. Appropriately qualified therapists can use these methods to support progress on family stress, grief, eating concerns and coping with health challenges.