Tara Porphy
Practical support for parenting and family stress
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tara
Tara Porphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey who helps people facing parenting stress and family challenges. She greets worried parents with a practical, down-to-earth style and focuses on clear steps to make daily life easier. Tara’s work is straightforward and aimed at reducing overwhelm and improving family functioning.
Tara has ten years of experience in varied settings including homes, offices, residential programs, and telehealth. She has worked with people across the lifespan and has direct experience with substance use recovery programs, leading groups, and offering individual and family-based counseling.
Background and approach
Much of that work involved helping family members navigate the effects of addiction. Her clinical background includes support for anxiety, panic, depression, trauma, self-harm, and developmental and intellectual disabilities, including autism. She also helps with anger, sleep problems, grief, ADHD, and relationship stress.
Tara adapts her approach to the needs of each person rather than relying on one fixed method. Tara draws from Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered methods, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), and Mindfulness Therapy. In sessions she blends practical skills, emotion-focused work, and mindfulness exercises to address both immediate problems and longer-term patterns.
People who work with Tara can expect a collaborative process that balances skill-building with emotional understanding. She often uses motivational interviewing and psychoeducation when recovery or behavior change is a focus. Her aim is to help parents and individuals find clearer routines and better ways of coping with life’s demands.
How Tara’s Approaches Work Online
Tara commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her online work. CBT focuses on practical strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people change how they connect and respond to loved ones.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Tara talks with each person about goals and preferences and adjusts methods as needed. Together they choose techniques that fit the person’s situation and day-to-day life rather than sticking to one fixed plan.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. These options let people meet from home, fit sessions into busy schedules, and use shorter check-ins or longer video meetings depending on needs. The variety of formats helps parents and individuals maintain consistency while balancing work, school, and family commitments.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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