About Tara
Tara Porphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey who helps people facing anxiety and stress. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that fit into daily life. Tara brings ten years of experience in community and residential settings to her work with individuals.
She welcomes questions and aims to make first conversations straightforward and doable. Her approach adapts to each person’s needs. She draws from attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current reactions.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness and emotionally-focused methods are added when helpful to calm the body and clarify emotions. Tara’s background includes work in residential substance use programs where she led groups and provided individual and family-based counseling.
She has supported people in recovery and their family members, using motivational interviewing and psychoeducation to encourage change. She has also worked with people who have intellectual and developmental differences, including autism, and with trauma-related concerns. She has experience in homes, offices, residential settings, and telehealth.
That variety informs a flexible style that adjusts to what a person needs in the moment. Sessions aim to be practical - building skills for sleep, managing panic, handling grief, or navigating parenting strain. Clients can expect a collaborative process focused on clear goals.
Tara uses tools that fit each situation and offers steady, direct support while people practice new ways of coping.
Therapeutic approaches suitable for online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect present feelings and reactions. In online sessions this approach helps people notice patterns in their close relationships and try new ways of connecting or setting boundaries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and homework to reduce anxiety, change unhelpful thinking, and improve sleep or mood. A client-centered stance means the therapist follows the person's lead and builds each session around what matters most to them.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Tara will talk with a person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as progress is made. That collaborative planning helps make sure sessions focus on what the person needs now rather than following a fixed protocol.
Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or days when typing feels easier. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while keeping treatment consistent and goal-oriented.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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