Tara Porphy, LPC

Tara Porphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, and life changes. She speaks plainly and works with clients to build skills that fit their daily routines. Tara aims to make the first steps toward help feel doable and clear. Tara brings ten years of experience across home, office, residential, and telehealth settings. She has worked with people of many ages and needs, including those facing addiction and dual diagnosis. In residential treatment she led groups, ran individual sessions, and supported family members affected by a loved one’s substance use. Her work often focuses on anxiety, panic, depression, trauma, and self-harm, and she has experience with intellectual and developmental disabilities including autism. She also supports parents who are struggling with the demands of caregiving and blended family stressors. Tara uses a practical mix of methods to suit each person. She relies on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with client-centered and attachment-based ideas to help people change unhelpful thoughts, strengthen relationships, and build coping strategies. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are part of her toolbox when they match a client’s goals. Sessions center on clear goals, real-life practice, and steady progress. Tara works collaboratively to set priorities and to try approaches that feel sensible for day-to-day life. She is licensed in New Jersey as an LPC and conducts therapy in English.

Background and approach: Tara’s experience includes group leadership, family-focused sessions, and treatment for addiction recovery. She tailors methods to individual needs and offers phone, video, chat, and messaging formats. Her goal is to help people develop practical skills, improve relationships, and manage difficult emotions so daily life becomes more manageable.

How Tara’s approaches translate to online therapy

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It’s often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing everyday stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and helps people change how they connect, which can ease parenting strain, abandonment worries, and communication problems.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Tara will talk with each person about their goals and daily life, then try methods that fit those needs. She adjusts techniques over time, checking in to see what is helping and what should change so progress feels realistic and useful.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a deeper conversation or visual cues help. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief updates, ongoing support between sessions, and options for people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines and to practice skills in real-world moments.