About Tara
Tara Parisi is a licensed clinician with 24 years of experience who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She uses straightforward conversation and actionable strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting strain, trauma, and ADHD. Tara aims to make therapy feel like a good fit from the start.
Tara earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology with a concentration in marriage and family therapy. She holds the designation LMHC and LCPC and has worked in clinical settings across New Hampshire.
Background and approach
Her background includes supporting adults through life transitions, career decisions, grief, and mood challenges. In sessions she listens first, then helps clients build skills they can use right away. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful patterns and on Client-Centered Therapy to make the work collaborative and respectful.
Narrative and Solution-Focused approaches help people reframe their stories and find steps that move them forward. Tara keeps sessions down to earth and often uses humor and plain language. She talks through practical tools for coping with panic, anger, relationship conflict, and parenting stress.
The plan is shaped around each person’s goals and everyday life. She encourages open communication about fit and progress. If a particular style doesn’t feel right, Tara works with clients to adjust the approach or suggest other options.
Her aim is to help people notice strengths and make manageable changes.
How Tara Combines Approaches Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful working relationship so clients feel heard and in charge of goals. This approach helps with motivation, self-esteem, and decision-making. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, panic, and mood symptoms. Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from problem stories and rewrite how they understand difficult events or patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative step. Tara works with clients to identify goals and tries methods that fit the person’s needs and day-to-day life. She checks in about what helps and adjusts tools or techniques over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls suit deeper conversations when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions are good when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can help with brief updates, homework check-ins, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or parenting demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine
- Languages
- English
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