About Tara
Tara Knight is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, low self-esteem, and depression. She also supports people facing relationship and family strain, grief, parenting challenges, anger, bipolar mood concerns, and major life changes. Her style is straightforward and focused on building a trusting working relationship.
Tara listens first and then works with each person to set clear goals. She uses practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
How Tara works
She also draws on client-centered principles and motivational interviewing to help people find their own strengths and choices. Her background includes many years running substance use treatment programs in Florida and North Carolina. She later opened a general counseling practice in North Carolina and spent a long time helping people with stress-related problems, trauma, and family dynamics.
That history shaped a calm, solution-focused approach. Sessions move at a steady, collaborative pace. Tara helps people break problems into manageable steps and practices new skills between meetings.
She emphasizes real-life tools for coping with strong emotions, improving communication, and reducing impulsive behavior. People come for many reasons, including caregiver stress, attachment concerns, blended family issues, codependency, control problems, and substance use challenges. Tara combines practical strategies and steady support to help people regain balance and handle everyday demands.
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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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the person's lead to build trust and clarity. It helps when someone needs a steady, understanding presence while they sort through feelings and decisions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical exercises and skill-building to reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, and change unhelpful patterns.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, combines emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication skills. It is useful for strong emotions, impulsivity, and relationship challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on goals, needs, and preferences. Together they check what works and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat helps quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.
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