About Tara
Tara Hiller is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or identity concerns. She brings a calm, straightforward approach and aims to make therapy feel understandable and manageable for worried parents and busy people. She has practiced in Washington for 18 years and has worked in both personal and public settings.
That variety has given her experience with many issues, including trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, parenting challenges, and mood disorders.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing questions about gender, sexuality, adoption, attachment, and non-monogamous relationships. Tara leans on client-centered principles, which means she focuses on building a trusting working relationship first. She helps people notice the barriers that keep them stuck and then uses practical tools to move forward.
Techniques are drawn from approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness practices. Sessions are aimed at practical change. People can expect clear skills for coping with intense emotions, better patterns for relationships, and steps to manage daily stress and sleep or eating struggles.
Tara pays attention to cultural and life-context factors that shape each person’s experience. Her style is direct but compassionate, with an emphasis on collaboration. She invites clients to set goals together and adjusts methods to fit individual needs and life schedules.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and is often used for mood issues, panic, and sleep or eating problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals, preferences, and the issues at hand. That may mean trying an approach for a few sessions and adjusting as progress or needs change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction without travel, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in during a busy day, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or treatment routines while keeping the focus on consistent, goal-oriented care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English