About Tara
Tara Porphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and parenting challenges. Her style is direct and flexible so families and individuals can find what helps most.
Tara has ten years of experience in a range of settings, including home visits, offices, residential programs, and telehealth. She has helped people across the life span and supported men in dual-diagnosis residential care for substance use and mental health.
Background and approach
In that role she led groups and provided individual and family-based counseling. She has extensive work with anxiety, panic, trauma, depression, self-harm, and addiction recovery. Tara also has experience with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism, and with issues that often come up for caregivers.
She often brings motivational interviewing and psychoeducation into sessions when those tools fit the situation. Tara offers practical support for parents who are struggling with day-to-day demands. She frequently meets with parents one-on-one and sometimes works with family units when that is helpful.
Her aim is to reduce conflict and strengthen communication at home. Her approach draws from attachment-focused ideas, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused work, and mindfulness practices. She adapts methods to match each person's goals and needs, then revises the plan as progress is made.
Tara emphasizes steady steps and real-world strategies people can use between sessions.
How Tara’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape emotions and trust. Online sessions can help people name difficult patterns, practice new ways of connecting, and try small relationship changes that feel manageable over time.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building a strong working relationship. In remote sessions the therapist follows the client’s lead, reflecting concerns and helping set goals that fit daily life and caregiver responsibilities.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tara will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they review what’s working and adjust the plan so sessions stay useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing check-ins between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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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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