Tara Lorena Bass
she/her
About
Tara
Hello, I'm Tara! My clinical style is direct, collaborative, and grounded in honesty and compassion. I am a Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist and Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher. I utilize IFS, Mindfulness and somatic approaches, DBT and CBT to address your individual needs. I specialize in helping clients reconnect with self-trust and inner wisdom, align values and action, address behavioral change and healthy coping, manage people-pleasing tendencies and boundaries, improve healthy communication, and identify and practice self-nurturing. I believe therapy is most effective when we can speak openly about what is happening in your life and our process in the room. I show up as a real person, engaged, and present, and I believe that our work is a partnership. While I bring clinical depth and perspective, you bring your lived experience. Together, we can move toward clarity and insight.
I enjoy travel, new experiences, spending time by a river or in the mountains, and I love music and movement. My background includes time spent living and working at a meditation retreat center, which has helped me maintain a grounded perspective in my daily life. I’m a firm believer in the necessity of stillness, and I deeply value the balance of active exploration and intentional rest. I find support from family, friends, nature, and my cat Ember.
Tara
treats clients with
Relationship Difficulties
Stress
Depression
Anxiety
Substance Use
Cultural or Racial Identity
Childhood Challenges
Grief and Loss
Weight Management
Physical Health
Anger
ADHD
Borderline Personality Disorder
Sex/Intimacy
Life Transitions
Sleep or Insomnia
Trauma and PTSD
Communities
Tara
specializes in
Religion
Spirituality
Women's Issues
Men's Issues
LGBTQIA+ Affirming
Older Adults
Approaches
Tara
can use
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Dialectical Behavioral (DBT)
Mindfulness
Motivational Interviewing
Solution-Focused Therapy
Smoking Cessation
Humanistic/Transpersonal
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Psychodynamic
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Panic
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Social Phobia
Harm Reduction for Substance Use Disorders
Somatic Therapies
Tara
education and experience
- Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist, Level 2 Trained
- Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher through MMTCP with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach
- Clinical Evaluator, Emergency Room
- Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program (IOP), Supervisor and Clinician
- Behavioral Health Therapist, Consult-Liaison Psychiatry-Inpatient Hospital
- Behavioral Health Specialist, Primary Care
- Assistant Director, Meditation Retreat Center
- Elementary Education Teacher, Grades 3-5
- University of California, Los Angeles, MSW-Mental Health Concentration, Individual, Families and Groups
- Pace University, MST
- University of California, BA in Theater, Film and Television
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license information