About Tara
Tara Huber welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to start. She emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental space where someone can arrive as they are and take small steps toward change. Tara introduces practical tools while noticing existing strengths and resources.
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Iowa and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 19 years of experience. Her approach is collaborative and compassionate.
How Tara works
Tara helps people name difficult patterns and try new ways of responding to stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma, depression, and life changes. Tara blends straightforward skills with deeper exploration. She uses client-centered work to follow a person’s priorities and cognitive behavioral techniques to adjust unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She also draws on dialectical behavior strategies, EMDR, and elements of the Gottman Method when those approaches fit a person’s goals. Common focuses include coping with grief, addiction-related concerns, attention differences, body image and eating issues, parenting stress, and adjustment after major life events.
Tara pays attention to attachment and adoption-related topics and supports people facing fertility, blended family, and caregiver stress concerns. Her style is practical rather than perfection-focused: small, intentional steps build confidence over time. She encourages collaboration so people can discover what works for them and move toward the life they want to create.
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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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s priorities. Online sessions let the therapist ask questions, reflect back what she hears, and build a plan that fits each person’s life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and practice different behaviors; in virtual sessions this often includes guided homework, skill coaching, and checking progress from week to week. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is an approach used to address trauma; when appropriate it involves structured processing of distressing memories and may be integrated into remote sessions with modifications for the online setting.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist works collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person’s goals and comfort level. That decision is revisited as work proceeds, so techniques can be adjusted if something isn’t helping.
The biography does not list which session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow a shorter check-in when that suits a person. It also makes consistent, weekly practice and homework easier to manage between meetings, which supports steady progress.
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