Tara Hummel, LMHC, LPC

Tara Hummel greets people with a practical, down-to-earth style. She focuses on helping individuals who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, midlife questions, and big life changes. Her first aim is to help people find small, doable steps toward feeling more steady and more like themselves.

Tara is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). She brings 12 years of clinical experience and many years of work with people affected by addiction and childhood trauma. Before moving into broader mental health practice she spent years supporting children and adolescents with autism and their caregivers, including work around challenging behavior and co-parenting struggles.

In sessions she uses clear, structured tools as well as time to listen and notice patterns. She mixes client-centered conversation with cognitive-behavioral techniques, trauma-focused work, and psychodynamic ideas about how past experience shapes current feelings. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is also part of her toolkit.

People can expect straightforward talk about symptoms and triggers, practical strategies to manage distress, and space to process painful events. Tara emphasizes dignity, respect, and compassion while helping people map steps forward.

If you are worried about stress, addiction, grief, or feeling stuck in midlife, Tara focuses on workable changes and clearer choices. To begin, follow the site's process to match with her and schedule an initial session.

Approaches you can try online and how they help

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. It helps people feel heard and noticed while they decide what changes matter most to them.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions.

EMDR is a trauma-focused approach that works with stressful memories to reduce their intensity and the distress they cause. It can be helpful for people who are processing past trauma or painful events.

Finding the right approach is usually a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Clients are encouraged to speak up about what feels useful so sessions can be tailored to individual needs.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing meetings from different locations. Some formats may let people choose shorter check-ins, phone options that need less bandwidth, or video sessions that support deeper conversation; confirm which formats are available before booking. Online work can support practical skill-building, trauma processing, and steady progress toward goals.