Tara Hummel meets people where they are and helps them take practical steps toward feeling steadier.
01About Tara
Tara Hummel meets people where they are and helps them take practical steps toward feeling steadier. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, parenting challenges, LGBT issues, relationship strain, anger, self-esteem, depression, ADHD, and related concerns. Tara brings a calm, direct style and aims to make sessions understandable and useful for daily life.
Tara is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and also holds the LPC credential. She has spent over a decade in helping roles, including many years working with people affected by addiction and several years supporting children and adolescents with autism and their guardians.
Background and approach
That experience shaped her interest in behavior, communication, and parenting topics. In sessions she draws on approaches that include cognitive behavioral techniques, psychodynamic ideas, trauma-focused work, client-centered methods, and solution-focused strategies. She explains tools in plain language and focuses on what clients can try between meetings.
Progress is paced to each person’s needs. Her background also includes grief work with youth through volunteer roles at a weekend bereavement camp. Those experiences informed her comfort with grief, loss, and related emotions.
Tara prefers straightforward, respectful conversation and gives space for clients to tell their stories. Overall she aims to offer hope and clear next steps. Many people find her style useful when managing life transitions, difficult feelings, or recovery efforts.
Sessions are aimed at helping people build skills they can use outside therapy.
02Credentials
- LPC (Pennsylvania)
- License PC012781 · expires February 2027
- LMHC (Florida)
- License MH24972 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1497422935 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Tara lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Self-love
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Methods Tara names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Tara names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people identify goals and choices that feel right to them. This approach is useful for building trust and working through personal concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. Sessions include practical exercises and strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused approach that helps process distressing memories and reduce their emotional charge. It can be helpful for people who have trauma or strong reactions tied to past events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit their needs and comfort level. Adjustments are made over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions offer flexibility for different routines and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions may work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity when in-person meetings aren’t possible.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Tara commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting issues, LGBT concerns, relationship and family matters, anger, self-esteem, ADHD and related problems.
What is her overall therapy style like?
Her style is practical and client-centered with a mix of cognitive behavioral, trauma-focused, psychodynamic, and solution-focused ideas. Sessions emphasize clear tools and real-life application.
How long has she practiced?
She brings 12 years of professional experience working in counseling and behavioral roles, including long-term work with people affected by addiction and earlier years supporting children and adolescents with autism.
Where is she licensed and where does she practice?
She holds LMHC and LPC credentials and is based in Florida.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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