Tara Parisi, LMHC, LCPC

Tara Parisi is a licensed mental health clinician who brings 24 years of experience supporting individuals, couples, teens, and families. She holds the LMHC credential, which stands for Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and the LCPC credential, which denotes Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. Her academic background includes a degree in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy, providing a foundation for working with relational and individual concerns.

Tara focuses on improving quality of life by helping people manage depression, anxiety, panic attacks, trauma and abuse, stress, and life transitions. She also works with relationship and family challenges, parenting issues, career concerns, self-esteem, intimacy-related matters, anger, ADHD, and a range of mood and obsession-related difficulties. In practice she addresses caregiver stress, communication and control issues, commitment and separation concerns, feelings of emptiness, guilt and shame, isolation, jealousy, and other complex emotional challenges.

Her clinical style is warm, down-to-earth, and empathetic, grounded in a nonjudgmental stance that encourages openness. Tara draws on techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Rogerian client-centered principles, and Family Systems theory to tailor interventions to each person or family. She listens closely, uses genuine interactions and a touch of humor when appropriate, and emphasizes clients' existing strengths as the basis for change.

Beginning therapy can feel like finding the right pair of shoes - it needs to fit. Tara aims to collaborate with people to set clear goals and to help them recognize and use their own resources. If a particular style is not the best fit, she encourages honest feedback and will assist in finding alternative support that better meets individual needs.