About Tara
Tara Hummel is a licensed counselor who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps that reduce daily strain and on building coping skills for hard moments. Tara speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel manageable for someone juggling work, family, or recovery concerns.
She has worked in clinical and community settings for 12 years. Early in her career she spent time supporting children and adolescents with autism and helping caregivers manage challenging behavior.
Background and approach
She also has long experience assisting people with alcohol and drug addiction and with grief work at weekend bereavement camps. Tara blends approaches to fit each person’s needs. She draws on client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful patterns, trauma-focused work for painful memories, and psychodynamic ideas to look at recurring life themes.
Sessions tend to be direct and goal-oriented while also making room for deeper reflection. People who come to her can expect practical tools for anxiety, help navigating parenting and co-parenting stress, and strategies for managing anger, low self-esteem, or life transitions. She also offers support around ADHD, relationship struggles, and issues related to identity and belonging.
Tara is credentialed as an LMHC and an LPC and practices in Florida. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How Tara’s Approaches Work Online
Tara commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience so goals grow from their priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete tools to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns.She also uses trauma-focused methods when painful memories get in the way of daily life. That work aims to reduce how strongly past events affect current mood and reactions, and to help people regain a sense of control. These approaches can be combined based on what a person needs most in therapy.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Tara will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and check progress along the way, adjusting strategies as needed.
Online therapy makes these methods easier to access. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers written communication. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Florida
- Languages
- English
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