Tara Porphy, LPC

New Jersey · 10 years in practice

Tara Porphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting strain, addiction concerns, and life changes.

License and registration

LPC, New Jersey: 37PC00597800 · expires November 2026
NPI: 1740712074 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 10
Languages: English

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Tara

Tara Porphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting strain, addiction concerns, and life changes. She speaks plainly and works to make therapy feel understandable for people who are worried or overwhelmed. She brings 10 years of experience in community, residential, office, and telehealth settings across New Jersey.

That work included supporting people in recovery, leading groups in a dual-diagnosis residential program, and offering individual and family-based counseling.

Background and approach

She also has experience with trauma, depression, panic, self-harm, and developmental disabilities including autism. Tara often helps parents who are burned out or struggling with daily parenting demands. She meets with parents individually and also supports family members connected to someone in recovery.

Her background includes home-based work with at-risk children and teens, and she adapts how she works based on each person’s situation. Her clinical approach blends several methods to match what a person needs. She draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and client-centered care.

Sessions focus on clear goals, practical skills, and understanding emotions and relationships. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a session according to therapist availability.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Tara lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Family conflicts
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Addictions
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Sleeping disorders
Depression
Coping with life changes
ADHD
Abandonment
Adoption and foster care
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
Dependent personality
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
Divorce and separation
Drug and alcohol addiction
Eating and food-related issues
Emptiness
Family problems
Fatherhood issues
Forgiveness
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
Postpartum depression
Post-traumatic stress
Pregnancy and childbirth
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-love
Sexuality
Social anxiety and phobia
Trichotillomania
Women's issues
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Tara names

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Online support

How Emotion-Focused and Attachment Work Online

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name strong emotions and how those feelings shape their relationships. It is useful for people who want clearer emotional understanding and safer ways to connect with others.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns people developed with caregivers and how those patterns affect current relationships. It can help with abandonment, adoption or foster care concerns, and improving how people respond to stress in close relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and offer suggestions, then try methods that fit your needs and preferences. You and the therapist adjust the plan together as you learn what helps most.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let you talk face to face, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules and let licensed professionals provide consistent support across formats.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does this therapist address?

Tara works with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, anger, sleep problems, parenting strain, relationship and attachment issues, ADHD, and related challenges.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style mixes client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness, plus Emotionally-Focused and attachment-based ideas when helpful.

What is her professional background?

She has 10 years of experience across home, office, residential, and telehealth settings, including work in a dual-diagnosis residential program and support for people in recovery.

Where is the therapist licensed and based?

The therapist holds LPC credentialing as a Licensed Professional Counselor in New Jersey and practices from that state.

Which languages are used in sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Are sessions available for international clients?

International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are offered?

Sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How does payment and starting therapy work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session.

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