About Tara Ross.
M.A., LPC, LSOTP — virtual therapy across Texas.
Who you'll meet
A steady partner for hard seasons.
Tara Ross is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Sex Offender Treatment Provider (LSOTP) practicing virtually throughout Texas. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling and brings more than ten years of clinical experience to her work with adults, adolescents, couples, and families.
Her clinical specialties center on the parts of life many therapists shy away from: grief and bereavement, anticipatory grief, end-of-life concerns, caregiving stress, and the complex needs of clients and families touched by problematic sexual behavior. She has spent years walking alongside people in hospice/palliative settings, in court-mandated treatment, and in the long aftermath of loss.
Tara believes therapy works best when it is honest, warm, and grounded in the client's actual life — not a manual. She takes hard cases seriously and ordinary struggles just as seriously.
Therapeutic approach
Integrative, person-centered, evidence-informed.
Tara practices integratively. Her work draws on person-centered foundations — unconditional positive regard, deep listening — combined with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for patterns of thought and behavior, narrative therapy for the stories we tell ourselves, and Wolfelt's Companioning Model for grief. She also draws on developmental theories to explore the genesis of thoughts and behaviors.
For clients in court-involvement, treatment is evidence-based and structured, utilizing the Risk-Need-Responsivity Model. Across every modality, the priority is the same: a relationship sturdy enough to do the real work.