About Tara
Tara Hummel is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, ADHD, addiction, grief, and parenting strains. Tara writes and talks plainly in sessions and aims to help people take small, practical steps forward.
She blends straightforward methods from cognitive behavioral work with trauma-focused and psychodynamic ideas. That means she helps clients notice patterns of thought and behavior, process past hurts, and understand how early relationships shape current struggles.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be practical and goal-focused while still making space for emotion. Tara has long experience supporting people affected by addiction and by childhood trauma. She also has a background working with autistic children and adolescents and with guardians managing challenging behaviors.
Her work with grief programs has included weekend grief camps for children and teens. In sessions she uses solution-focused strategies to set small, achievable targets. She also uses techniques from EMDR alongside talk-based approaches when addressing traumatic memories.
The emphasis is on helping people feel safer in their day-to-day life and more able to handle difficult moments. Tara practices in Florida and holds licensure as FL LMHC and PA LPC. She offers a practical, respectful approach for those who want clear steps and steady support.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered work focuses on listening and helping each person set the pace. Sessions center on the client’s concerns, priorities, and strengths and support steady progress on daily life challenges. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related habits, and stress. EMDR is an approach used to process traumatic memories by combining focused attention with guided processing; it can help reduce the intensity of past events that still cause problems today.Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Tara works together with clients to decide which approaches feel most helpful for their goals. That can mean trying CBT strategies first, moving into trauma-focused work, or blending techniques as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls are good for a full session with face-to-face connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, scheduling, homework support, or shorter conversations during a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines while still working toward real steps and change.
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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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