About Tara
Tara Hiller is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and other difficult life challenges. She aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. Tara keeps sessions focused on what matters to each person and on steps they can try between appointments.
With 18 years of clinical experience, Tara draws on several well-known approaches. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters and take action.
How Tara works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Client-centered methods make space for a person to lead the pace and topics of change. Her work covers many concerns including trauma and abuse, addictions, self-esteem, grief, and mood disorders like bipolar.
She also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, burnout, ADHD, and identity questions such as gender dysphoria. Tara addresses adoption and foster care issues, attachment struggles, codependency, communication difficulties, and multicultural concerns. Tara has practiced in both personal and public settings across Washington.
That mix of experience helped her develop practical skills for goal-oriented work and for enduring life challenges. She describes therapy as a collaborative process where people notice what’s holding them back and try new ways of coping. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps.
Tara listens closely, reflects what she hears, and suggests tools people can use between meetings. She works in plain language so parents and busy adults can fit therapy into their lives.
Tara lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Tara works with
The areas below are the ones Tara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small actions that match those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with mood disorders, panic, and sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and letting the person set the pace and goals of therapy.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Tara discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts methods to fit those needs. She works collaboratively to try techniques, notice what helps, and adjust the plan over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and feedback. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter updates, homework check-ins, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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