Tashar Turner, LCSW

Tashar Turner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She brings a calm, compassionate presence and centers each conversation on the person in front of her. Her approach is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping people feel understood and begin to heal.

For more than a decade she has worked in hospital settings alongside women and families in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, obstetric emergency care, labor and delivery, mother-baby/postpartum units, and the neonatal intensive care unit. That work has shaped her understanding of pregnancy, childbirth, high-risk medical concerns, NICU stays, and postpartum emotional needs. She helps people process loss, infertility challenges, stillbirth, and other perinatal grief experiences.

She also supports people facing caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, and the emotional fallout from major life transitions. Her practice includes work with anxiety, panic, postpartum depression, post-traumatic stress, and issues of guilt, shame, and isolation. She is experienced in supporting members of the LGBTQIA+ community and offers culturally responsive care.

Tashar uses a warm, collaborative, person-centered style that is trauma-informed and strengths based. In sessions she helps identify concerns, name strengths, and build concrete coping skills. Techniques may include cognitive-behavioral ideas, solution-focused steps, motivational interviewing, mindfulness, and grief support when helpful.

She practices in Florida and works in English. Reaching out can feel hard, and she aims to make the first steps as clear as possible so people can find support during difficult seasons.

Evidence-based approaches for perinatal and caregiving stress

Many of the techniques Tashar uses come from evidence-based therapeutic methods that focus on practical change. Cognitive-behavioral ideas involve noticing patterns of thought and behavior, testing unhelpful beliefs, and practicing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. These techniques often help with panic, worry, and low mood.

Solution-focused strategies concentrate on quick, concrete steps you can try between sessions. This approach looks at what’s already working, sets small goals, and builds momentum toward everyday relief. It can be useful when managing caregiver stress or navigating the early postpartum period.

Finding the right mix of approaches is usually a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your situation, goals, and preferences, and together you will decide which methods to try and when to adjust them. That decision-making is shared and revisited as needs change.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking, since formats were not specified in the original profile. Online options can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They also let people join from a quieter place, use phone-only conversations if video is difficult, or arrange sessions around caregiving and medical appointments.