Tara High, LPC

Tara High brings a warm, practical, and creative approach to therapy, offering support to children, teens, and adults who are navigating stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, relationship struggles, or moments of feeling stuck. She focuses on building usable tools and strategies that fit into everyday life rather than only talking about problems, and she often tailors sessions to the realities families face.

Her work draws from a range of informed methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, play therapy for children and parenting support, Gottman-informed relationship strategies, and Love and Logic parenting principles. Tara emphasizes values-driven change, helping people identify what matters most to them and take steps toward those goals even when circumstances feel difficult.

Tara is licensed as an LPC - a Licensed Professional Counselor - and brings a down-to-earth, nonjudgmental presence to her sessions. She is a single mother of two boys and says that real-life parenting and the everyday messiness of life shape how she shows up as a therapist. If spirituality or faith matters to someone, she is comfortable incorporating those perspectives in a supportive way when requested.

Outside of work she enjoys getting outdoors, rock hunting, and savoring good, preferably spicy, food. She responds to messages on weekdays and aims to offer consistent, supportive communication while maintaining healthy boundaries.

Therapeutic Approaches and Accessible Online Care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people clarify their values and commit to actions that align with those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where someone wants meaningful change rather than symptom elimination alone.

The Gottman Method focuses on relationship patterns and communication skills, offering practical strategies to improve connection, manage conflict, and strengthen partnerships. It is particularly helpful for couples working on communication, trust, and intimacy issues.

Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and gentle acceptance as tools to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation. It can support work with anxiety, depression, stress, and chronic life challenges.

Determining the best approach is part of the therapeutic process. Tara collaborates with each person to identify the methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adapts techniques as those needs evolve. This collaborative stance helps ensure the work feels relevant and doable.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect - through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - which can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life or when in-person options are limited. These options support consistent access to a licensed professional and allow therapists to use interventions and skills practice in ways that match each client's daily routines.