Tara Porphy, LPC

Tara Porphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with ten years of clinical experience. She has provided care across multiple settings - including clients' homes, office-based work, residential programs, and telehealth - and has worked with people spanning early childhood through later adulthood (approximately ages 3 through 70+).

Tara's clinical background includes work in a dual-diagnosis residential program addressing both substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions. In that role she led groups, provided individual and family counseling, and offered support to residents' family members. Her work has included motivational interviewing and psychoeducation, and she has supported people in recovery as well as the families affected by addiction, viewing addiction as a condition that impacts the whole family system.

She also has broad experience treating anxiety, panic disorders, depression, trauma, and self-harm, and has worked with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism. Tara has spent time supporting at-risk children, adolescents, and their families in home settings, often working directly with parents or with family units to address parenting challenges and related stressors.

Tara uses an adaptable, client-centered approach and draws from an eclectic set of methods. Her toolbox includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Person-Centered techniques, and she adjusts interventions to match each client's needs. She is currently accepting clients and aims to help individuals and families move toward improved functioning and wellbeing.