About Tara
Tara Parisi is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on practical, down-to-earth support. She draws on 24 years of experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationships, parenting challenges, and trauma. Her style is straightforward and warm, with an emphasis on listening and helping clients use their own strengths.
She works with adults facing life transitions, career concerns, and family problems. Sessions often include clear, manageable strategies to reduce anxiety, handle panic, and improve communication.
Background and approach
Tara mixes solution-focused ideas with cognitive-behavioral techniques to help people make small changes that add up. Tara believes therapy should fit the person. She treats each plan as an individual project and adjusts methods to match a client's goals and pace.
Humor and genuine conversation are part of how she builds trust and keeps work grounded in everyday life. Her background includes a Master of Arts and licensure as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC. She has worked across many settings and has supported people through grief, mood struggles, and family-of-origin issues.
In sessions she focuses on clear communication skills, coping tools for stress, and steps to address relationship or intimacy concerns. Tara encourages open feedback and will help point someone toward other resources if her approach isn’t the right fit. She practices in New Hampshire and provides care in English.
Approaches that guide online counseling
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s goals and experience. It focuses on listening carefully, reflecting what’s said, and helping people recognize their own strengths to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage panic, and change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about current problems, goals, and preferences, and then suggest methods that feel useful. That plan can shift as progress is made or as priorities change, so decisions are made together rather than fixed from the start.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video and phone let people have longer, face-to-face conversations while chat and messaging can be easier for quick check-ins, brief updates, or when someone prefers not to use video. These options help fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel and let therapists and clients focus on concrete steps and skills rather than logistics.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine
- Languages
- English