About Tara
Tara Hiller is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington who helps people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, mood struggles, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that fit each person's day-to-day life. Her approach is steady and respectful, aimed at making therapy useful and manageable for busy people and worried parents.
With 18 years of experience, Tara draws on a variety of approaches to match what each person needs.
Background and approach
She centers the relationship first, listening carefully to what is most important to the individual. From there she offers tools to reduce overwhelm, improve sleep and coping, and handle difficult emotions. Tara uses cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She also incorporates mindfulness practices to help people stay present and reduce reactivity. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas support clients in clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them. She has worked in both personal and public settings, which shaped her ability to adapt therapy to many life situations.
Tara often helps clients dealing with grief, parenting stress, relationship conflicts, and issues around identity and gender. She also addresses trauma, addictions, and challenges common in mood disorders. Sessions are conducted in English and are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Tara aims to make therapy fit daily life so people can practice new ways of coping between sessions.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values, even when difficult feelings show up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Mindfulness Therapy teaches short practices to increase awareness of the present moment and lower emotional reactivity.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to goals, try specific techniques, and adjust based on what feels helpful. Clients and the therapist work together to choose approaches that match needs, whether addressing ADHD-related focus challenges, mood symptoms, or stress from caregiving and parenting.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people work through skills and see nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief updates into a busy day or practice skills between sessions. These options help therapy adapt to real-life schedules and obligations.
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What this therapist works with
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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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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