Tara Hummel
Calm, practical therapy for parents and individuals
- Credentials
- LMHC, LPC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania, Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tara
Tara Hummel greets worried parents with a direct, calm approach. She focuses on practical steps to reduce stress, manage anxiety, and handle parenting challenges. Tara aims to help parents and individuals find clearer ways to cope with addiction, grief, trauma, and relationship tension.
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor. Tara brings 12 years of clinical experience and years of work supporting people affected by addiction and trauma.
Background and approach
She also spent time working with children and adolescents with autism and other behavioral health needs, helping caregivers manage difficult behaviors and co-parenting situations. Tara uses straightforward methods that are easy to put into practice between sessions. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
She also uses trauma-focused tools, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, when past events keep causing distress. Psychodynamic ideas help her understand how past relationships and patterns influence present problems. Tara adds solution-focused work to build immediate, achievable goals and small wins.
That mix allows sessions to address both urgent struggles and deeper, longer-term change. Her style is respectful and compassionate while remaining practical. She helps parents and individuals create manageable plans, practice new skills, and track progress over time.
Tara works in Florida and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It means listening closely and shaping sessions around the client's priorities to build trust and clarity. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits. EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that helps reduce the intensity of distress tied to past events by using guided processing techniques.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Tara collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That might mean starting with skill-building CBT tools, adding EMDR for specific traumatic memories, or using client-centered talk to guide next steps.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy parents and people with limited travel time. Video calls let the therapist and client see each other, while phone sessions remove the need for a camera. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in, ask quick questions, and keep momentum between sessions. These options help make ongoing care more accessible and easier to fit into everyday life.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Next step
Talk to Tara
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point