About Tara
Tara Passaretti is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 18 years of experience. She welcomes people who are feeling stuck, anxious, or overwhelmed and wants to help them take practical steps forward. Tara writes plainly and listens closely to what brought each person to therapy.
She focuses on everyday concerns like stress, anxiety, sleep problems, and parenting strain. She also supports people facing grief, relationship and intimacy challenges, career questions, and phobias.
Background and approach
Tara works with issues such as obsessive thoughts, panic attacks, attention concerns, and effects of trauma and abuse. Tara uses a client-centered approach that follows the person’s own goals. She also draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors.
Narrative and solution-focused ideas help people reframe their story and set clear, practical steps to change. Sessions are conversational and goal-directed. Tara aims to help people build skills they can use after sessions end.
She emphasizes small experiments, clearer communication, and manageable changes that fit daily life. Her practice is based in Rhode Island and she offers services in English. If someone is curious about starting, Tara asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session to see how things fit.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s goals. Online sessions let the therapist and client talk through what matters most and pace work around those goals. This approach is helpful for people who need support sorting priorities and building emotional awareness.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In online work, CBT translates into practical exercises, thought records, and behavior experiments that can be tried between sessions to reduce anxiety, panic, or phobias.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Tara will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time based on what works and what doesn’t, so clients help shape the plan.
Confirm the specific session options before booking, as formats are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make scheduling easier, allow shorter check-ins when needed, reduce travel time, and help sessions fit into work or family routines. Those practical benefits can make regular work on concerns like anxiety, phobias, or sleep problems more manageable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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