Therapy for Couples, Individuals, & Families
Tara Pellegrino LCSW
Maplewood Counseling Therapist
Meet Tara Pellegrino Chowaniec LCSW, Assistant Director
Tara helps individuals, couples, and families facing personal and relationship challenges. She connects with clients through curiosity, deep compassion, and humor if the moment is right. She’s comfortable with tension and awkwardness and sees hard conversations as meaningful entry points for healing and growth.
If you like to know the “how” of her style, she draws from Internal Family Systems (IFS), Relational Life Therapy (RLT), and somatic principles.Tara is also a certified Sex Therapy informed professional. She pairs deeper exploration with practical tools to support real-life shifts. When it fits, she incorporates creative and mindfulness-based methods—such as art, music, or film—to spark insight in unexpected ways.
At its core, Tara’s work helps untangle what gets in the way of presence and connection—with ourselves and with each other.
Experience in:
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- Life transitions such as marriage, divorce, new baby, moving, job change, relocating, break-up, post college transitions
- Marriage and couples counseling
- Women’s Issues (including peri-menopause/menopause)
- Parenting & Family (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
- 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 enjoying a recent opera performance
Tara provides in person and video telehealth sessions.
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