About Tara
Tara Hummel offers direct, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, parenting challenges, or major life changes. She writes simply and listens carefully to what matters most. People who are struggling with self-esteem, anger, ADHD, or relationship problems can find steady, down-to-earth help in sessions.
Tara's approach aims to restore daily functioning and hope without jargon or pressure. With 12 years of clinical experience, Tara blends several well-known methods to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
She uses Client-Centered Therapy to focus on the client's priorities and to build a trusting therapeutic relationship. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns with concrete exercises. She also incorporates trauma-focused tools and elements of psychodynamic work when past experiences are getting in the way of current goals.
Before moving into broader clinical practice, Tara spent years working with children and adolescents with autism and other behavioral challenges, and with guardians managing difficult behavior and co-parenting issues. She has long experience supporting people facing addiction, including extended work with those affected by alcoholism and drug use.
Weekend volunteer work at grief camps gave her additional experience helping young people process loss. Tara holds the credential Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, in Pennsylvania. She practices from Florida and conducts sessions in English.
Her style is warm, straightforward, and focused on helping people regain control of daily life. Clients can expect collaborative planning, short-term practical strategies, and space to look at deeper patterns when needed. Sessions aim to balance immediate coping tools with longer-term change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the client's goals and priorities. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and supporting each person to make their own changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses clear tools and exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is used as a trauma-focused method to reduce the intensity of distressing memories and their impact on daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaborative process can involve short-term strategies first and deeper work later if needed.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people see facial cues and body language during discussion. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, homework exchanges, and flexible communication between scheduled sessions.
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What this counselor 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