About Tara
Tara Porphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people managing anxiety, stress, parenting strain, and phobias. She uses straightforward, practical strategies so parents can notice small changes quickly. Tara writes plainly and focuses on what will help day to day.
Tara brings ten years of experience in mental health work across homes, offices, residential settings, and telehealth. She has worked with people across the lifespan, including children and adults, and has supported family members of people in residential addiction programs.
Background and approach
That work included leading groups, individual sessions, and family-focused conversations. Her practice often addresses anxiety, panic, depression, grief, sleep problems, and trauma and abuse. She also supports people facing relationship struggles, issues with self-esteem, anger, and addictive behaviors.
Additional focus areas include attachment concerns, adoption and foster care questions, neurodiversity such as autism, and caregiver stress. Tara uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-based ideas, emotionally-focused work, mindfulness, and a client-centered stance to shape sessions.
Motivational interviewing and psychoeducation appear in work with people in recovery and those considering change. People working with Tara can expect adaptable, goal-oriented sessions that fit their situation. She offers help for everyday problems and more complex difficulties, aiming to make therapy practical and understandable.
Tara works from New Jersey as an LPC and conducts sessions in English.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how past bonds affect current reactions; it is useful for attachment issues, parenting concerns, and relationship patterns. Client-centered therapy centers on listening, empathy, and following the person’s lead to build understanding and self-direction; it helps people who need nonjudgmental space to think through problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety, address phobias, and change unhelpful patterns. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. That process can include adjusting techniques as progress is made so the approach matches the person rather than the other way around. Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging are useful for people who prefer writing or want ongoing brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work from different locations.Questions people ask
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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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