Tara Hummel
Helping people build skills and heal from trauma
LMHC, LPC Florida
- Experience
- 12 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Tara
Tara Hummel offers support to people coping with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, trauma, parenting challenges, and a wide range of life changes.
Background and approach
As a licensed clinician practicing in Florida, she draws on more than a decade of experience to help clients build coping skills and move toward greater emotional balance. Tara emphasizes dignity, respect, and compassion in her work, aiming to guide clients toward a more fulfilling future while honoring their individual stories.
Her background includes extensive work with children and adolescents on the autism spectrum and their caregivers, including addressing challenging behaviors and co-parenting concerns. She also brings long-term experience supporting people affected by alcohol and substance use and has volunteered in grief-focused programs for youth.
Tara uses a blend of approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, trauma-focused methods including EMDR, and psychodynamic perspectives to tailor care to each person’s needs and goals.
Approaches That Guide Online Work
Clients can expect treatment options grounded in cognitive behavioral techniques and trauma-focused methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors through practical skills and structured exercises, which can be effective for anxiety, depression, and stress management. EMDR offers a trauma-focused approach that uses guided processing to help lessen the impact of distressing memories and related symptoms, often used when past events continue to affect daily functioning.Deciding on an approach is part of the therapeutic process and typically happens collaboratively. The therapist discusses goals, preferences, and symptom patterns with each client, then combines elements from different methods to create a tailored plan rather than relying on a single technique. This collaborative stance helps ensure the work aligns with what the client hopes to achieve.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility for varying schedules and comfort levels. These formats make regular appointments more accessible for people balancing work, family, or mobility limitations, and they allow clients to continue therapeutic progress without geographic constraints.
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Experience
12+ years
Licensed
Pennsylvania, Florida
Languages
English