Hi There, I'm Tara
I'm Dr. Tara Vossenkemper. I've worked in therapy since 2012 and have owned and operated a group practice since 2017. My work has expanded to include consulting and facilitation for other owners and leaders.
What Tends to Catch My Attention
Give me an explanation that almost fits, a pattern that keeps returning, or a conversation that keeps getting danced around but never directly had, and I'm interested.
My mind tends to move toward connections: what someone's reacting to, what makes that response understandable, and what else in the situation is helping keep the pattern going. I can be interested in the spreadsheet, the conversation no one's having, and the assumption underneath both.
I want to understand what we're seeing, what we're assuming, and what we've stopped questioning. Often, the thing that changes my understanding is something my clients hadn't yet thought to consider together.
Business Has Always Felt Alive to Me
The only way I understand business is by holding practical decisions and human responses together, including my own. I'm constantly thinking about what makes something workable and how it will be experienced at the same time.
I experience business as something alive, with people, relationships, decisions, and resources continually responding to one another. That's how I experience the world more broadly, too. It's a way of seeing that follows me across the different kinds of work I do.
The Integrity at Scale™ Model puts a picture to that perspective. It represents how I was already experiencing and operating my business, shaped by the work of leading, making decisions, and seeing what happened next. It gives me a way to share, examine, and keep developing that understanding.
I'm Particular About What We Mean
I'll sometimes want to stop and figure out what we mean by a word, a statement, or a policy before we keep going. Words like support, autonomy, and accountability can sound perfectly clear until we ask what each of us means by them and what they look like in practice.
Naming something accurately helps all of us think more clearly about it. It becomes easier to see where we agree, where we don't, and what we might actually do next.
Sometimes a better word clarifies the thought. Sometimes trying to find it reveals that the thought itself needs more work. I'm interested in both, including when it comes to myself and my practice.
In Conversation With Me
I like conversations where we can get past the polite version, ask an awkward question, and still have a good laugh. We can take the work seriously and enjoy each other's company.
I'll ask questions. I'll say when something doesn't make sense to me. And I want there to be room for you to do the same.
I care about understanding something accurately and doing something useful with it.