Tara McCaffery, MA, RCC, CCC
Tara McCaffery, MA, RCC, CCC
Canadian Certified Counsellor
Tara received her Masters in Counselling Psychology, at Athabasca University, BA in Psychology from the University Of Victoria, and has over 10 years of experience supporting individuals through a variety of life challenges. As a registered Clinical Counsellor, Certified Meditation Instructor, and Trauma-Informed Yoga Facilitator, Tara takes a holistic approach to counselling and wellness where she can apply a variety of modalities to therapy sessions.
Her experiences include working in numerous counselling settings; private sessions, school districts, provincial prisons, non-profit organizations, First Nations Communities, and the BC Schizophrenia Society as a Regional Educator. In these settings she assisted adults, couples, families, children, and youth who endured various life traumas, OCD, anxiety, depression, generational trauma, other life stressors and substance use. Tara is passionate about taking a holistic, client-centred, and individualized approach to therapy with talk and somatic therapy pieces. Her clients value her calming and soothing presence which allows for the development of a positive therapeutic alliance. She recognizes that success in therapy happens through developing rapport, trust, respect, and collaboration with clients. Her core values include connection, lifelong learning, and genuineness.
Tara is registered in good standing, as a clinical counselor with the BC Association of Clinical Counselors. Tara is also a member of The International OCD Federation, and the Vancouver Ambassador for Trauma Informed Yoga with The Prison Yoga Project.
Tara has certifications in CBT, DBT, Mindfulness, Exposure Response and Narrative therapies, Meditation Instruction, Somatic Embodiment Regulation Strategies, and specialty San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training, OCD treatment and EMDR training.
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