Hi, I'm tara

My work as a therapist has taken me through many different worlds: inpatient psychiatric hospitals, nonprofit programs serving people with developmental disabilities, and work with children and teens who are neurodivergent or have experienced trauma. These experiences taught me early in my career that people are never as simple as a diagnosis, a behavior, or a story someone else has told about them.

My interest in psychology began onstage.

I studied acting at Emerson College, and as I stepped into different characters, I became fascinated by the role I was playing. I would wonder: What was this person’s childhood like? What happened to them? What shaped them into who they are? What do they want—and what do they yearn for? I loved imagining the inner worlds of people who were completely different from me—or were there parts of me that were the same?

That curiosity eventually became a way of understanding people beyond the stage. Before graduate school, I was also studying yoga and becoming interested in the relationship between the body, emotions, and our mind.

Those interests eventually came together when I received my Master’s degree in Drama Therapy from New York University. Since then, my clinical work and training have continued to expand into play therapy, nervous-system regulation, depth psychology, and other creative and relational approaches. I’m a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Registered Drama Therapist.

I draw from all of these perspectives, but there is one thing I return to again and again: the therapeutic relationship.

At the heart of that relationship is the experience of having a place where you can be fully yourself.

For a child, that might happen through play, imagination, movement, or a story they create. For a teenager, it might be the first place they can say something out loud without worrying about how it will sound. For an adult, it might be a place to truly listen to the parts of themselves that need to be validated and heard.

I often return to Winnicott’s idea of the “good-enough” parent. We don’t have to get everything right. Children don’t need perfect parents; they need relationships with enough safety, connection, and room for repair. I think this is true for the rest of us, too.

We lose our way. We get overwhelmed. We make mistakes. We change. It’s all part of the human experience. Sometimes we need someone beside us while we figure out what comes next.

That is the kind of space I hope to create in therapy: warm, thoughtful, creative, and human. A place where you don’t have to arrive with the answers, and where we can be curious together about what your experiences might be trying to tell you.

You don’t have to know exactly what you need before reaching out. We can start there.