Tara Chowaniec LSW
Maplewood Counseling

Tara Chowaniec LSW

Meet Tara Chowaniec

Tara has experience helping people navigate a variety of challenges, including relationship issues, parenting, life transitions, grief, chronic illness, sexuality, and sexual well-being. Tara’s approach is down to earth, inclusive, and culturally sensitive, creating a warm environment where people can feel seen and heard.

Tara has completed the equivalent of level one training in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Relational Life Therapy (RLT). She also uses narrative and psychodynamic modalities and encourages creative mindfulness.

Experience in:

• • Life transitions such as marriage, divorce, new baby, moving, job change, relocating, break-up, post college transitions
  • Marriage and couples counseling
  • Parenting and family issues
  • Women’s Issues (including peri-menopause/menopause)
  • Parenting (including belnded family, step-family, co-parenting and custody issues)
  • Grief & loss
  • Chronic illness
  • Intimacy Issues, sexuality and sexual well-being
  • LGBTQIA+ individuals & same sex couples, family issues
  • Polyamory & ethical nonmonogamy
  • Women’s Issues (including peri-menopause/menopause)
  • Chronic Illness, caretaker issues (including health disparity in marginalized populations)

In her free time…

Tara enjoys creating mixed media collages, attending live shows ranging from opera to post-punk bands, and exploring Montreal’s food scene and vintage stores. She’s down for trying new things, with the exception of anything involving hiking or heights!

Tara provides in person and video telehealth sessions.

Want to learn more about scheduling with Tara? Call us at 973-793-1000.