Innerlight Counseling
Harnessing the healing power of interpersonal neurobiology to illuminate and transform the suffering within you into a life of flourishing.
Available through telehealth in Florida with in-person office coming August 2026
A Note From Tara
It is an honor and a privilege to walk with individuals and couples through their darkest valleys, holding the light of hope that there is a way out that is through. I consider it sacred to be with you in the suffering as a representative of Love, speaking truth, kindness, and compassion in the places where you have become accustomed to the voice of shame, guilt, doubt, and fear. I consider it an honor and a calling to climb into the pits of trauma, depression, and anxiety, and show you the way out in step with your unique process. In you, there is light and life and love but it has been marred and covered by the stains of life in a broken world. The echoes of trauma may reverberate in your mind, heart, body, and behaviors, but that is not all you are. The authentic and true you, the Imago Dei, whose value exceeds your doing and your suffering, is within you, longing to emerge. It is my great passion to see you deeply, be with and transform your pain, guide you toward healing, and call forth the glorious You within. Together, we overcome evil with good. We free the parts of you held captive by trauma and the pain of aloneness. We trade shame for dignity, isolation for connection, despair for joy, and insodoing see the goodness of life available even and especially to you.
Real Change Through A Holistic Approach
Experience real and lasting change with a unique trauma recovery approach that engages the whole person - body, mind, and spirit:
Meditations to mindfully engage your internal and external world
Nervous system regulation skills to offer alternatives to destructive coping mechanisms
Emotional processing to shift how you relate to your feelings
Guided reparenting to heal childhood wounds and learn to love your inner child
Rituals to mark the harm that your body has endured and transformations in growth
Embodiment exercises to come home to the body you inhabit
Did you know that both anxiety and depression are often caused by unprocessed emotion?
To keep from being overwhelmed by our emotions, absent of the tools and support to feel them, we all learn to suppress our feelings. We learn this early in life. In childhood, this might be due to being raised by a single parent, emotional neglect, or traumatic experience, but the result is devastating. What was once a brilliant coping mechanism for our survival becomes a cyclonic pattern that we do not know how to escape — and we are left numb, suffering in a life that is bleak, absent of vitality, and so far from all we had imagined it would be. But you KNOW there is more. You can see it in the people around you and you want it for yourself. You want to feel the lows AND highs, to see the vibrant color in the world around you, to be your most authentic self.
As a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist, I will help you face your emotions and pain, both past and present, so that they no longer have power over you. I am here to accompany you into the foreign territory of your inner world, guiding you into the places that may be too scary to go alone. You can learn a new way of handing your emotions, and I will show you how.
You have struggled and suffered long enough. Don't allow another day to go by in despair, fear, pain, and shame. Allow me the sacred honor of guiding you as you befriend your emotional world and access the wisdom of your body so that you can experience the life of peace, connection, and freedom that you were created for.