Innerlight Counseling
Harnessing the healing power of interpersonal neurobiology to illuminate and transform the suffering within you and your relationships into a life of flourishing.
Available through telehealth from the comfort of your home.
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Individual Therapy
Healing that takes place in safe, authentic relationship with an empathic, understanding guide to help make sense of your struggle and heal the wounds beneath them. Specializing in depression, anxiety, developmental trauma, unwanted sexual behaviors, and evolving faith.
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Couples Counseling
Specializing in communication, infidelity, sexual addiction, and libido differences. Using Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, the gold standard of couples counseling, an evidence-based approach which helps couples reach and respond to each other for greater connection, intimacy, and bond that endures.
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Supervision
As an Emotionally Focused Therapy Supervisor, I help new EFT therapists hone their conceptual map and experiential skills for Certification in EFT, or help therapists interested in EFT’s methods to improve their skills in working with couples, individuals, or families using experiential interventions.
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Teaching & Speaking
With a background in education and gifting to communicate complex concepts in simple and understandable language, Tara is available to teach and speak both to other therapists for continuing education and workshops, or for events on marriage, women’s/men’s issues, etc.
A Note From Tara
It is an honor and a privilege to walk with individuals and couples through their darkest valleys, holding the light of hope that there is a way out that is through. I consider it sacred to be with you in the suffering as a representative of Love, speaking truth, kindness, and compassion in the places where you have become accustomed to the voice of shame, guilt, doubt, and fear. I consider it a joy and a calling to climb into the pit of trauma, depression, anxiety, infidelity, and addiction, and show you the way out in step with your unique process. In you, there is light and life and love but it has been marred and covered by the stains of life in a broken world. The echoes of trauma may reverberate in your mind, heart, body, and actions, but that is not all you are. The authentic and true you, the Imago Dei, whose value exceeds your doing and your suffering, is within you, longing to emerge. It is my great passion to see you deeply, guide you toward healing, be with and transform your pain, and call forth the glorious You within. Together, we overcome evil with good. We free the parts of you held captive by trauma and the pain of aloneness. We trade ashes for beauty, isolation for connection, mourning for joy, and insodoing see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living, available even and especially to you.
Testimonials
“Tara and I began meeting at a time where I was experiencing regular, overwhelming feelings of anxiety. I was stuck and needed some outside listening and guidance to learn how to get unstuck. Tara listened to me and took my experiences seriously. She validated my experiences in a truly healing way. I'm so thankful for her expertise and will be forever changed because of our sessions together.” ~AU, 7/12/22
“Tara is very insightful and wise, she has helped us go through not only our marriage conflict but our deepest childhood and personal struggles, the last year with her our lives have improved immensely and even that is an understatement, it was surely, a great investment and we appreciate every session we’ve had with her.”
~ PV, 3/3/2022
“I'm so glad I found Tara when I did. She not only helped me navigate the hardest period of my entire life, she taught me how to love myself, find enjoyment in my new situation, and helped me learn invaluable things about myself. She truly cares and it shows during every session. ~ EP, “
Tara helped us navigate through some hard things by digging deep and helped us see things that we missed for over 30 years in our marriage that we’re holding us back from our full potential as a couple. She was very attentive, compassionate, encouraging and invested in both of us. We not only learned new things about one another but also we learned to communicate more effectively. God was definitely at the center of all this and we couldn’t be more grateful. Our experience was life changing! We have encouraged others to get counseling as well. Counseling isn’t just when you have big issues , it’s also there to help before bigger issues arise.There are stigma’s out there on counseling and I can say it’s all wrong. We recommend them highly and especially Tara!, 12/3/21, SP
“Tara has been wonderful to work with over the past year plus. She Is very gifted in the ability to put emotions into perspective and more importantly into words. She has helped me see where I could not and what I could not. My life, my marriage and my family‘s life have changed for the better because of time spent with her. She is truly making a difference and is excellent at what she does!“~ VM, 4/24/22