Tara Porter is a Licensed Resident counselor at Fountain of Hope Counseling Center. She graduated from Norfolk State University in 2018 with a bachelor’s in interdisciplinary studies and a master’s in community counseling. She has over ten years of experience in the mental health field. She began her career as a Qualified Mental Health Professional for children and adults in 2013 before expanding into outpatient therapy in 2022.
Tara is committed to assisting individuals with learning how to implement needed coping skills to manage the struggles of everyday life. She is driven by collaborating cognitive behavioral therapy, which is a talking therapy that helps clients solve problems and manage symptoms by changing their way of thinking and behaving, and
solution-focused therapy, which is a goal-directed approach to change through direct observation of her clients and their responses to constructed questions.
Tara’s passion for therapy is catapulted by observing adults and children who require therapy or attempt therapy struggle to connect with therapists because they are unrelatable. She believes therapy should be attainable by all who desire or require a need to talk to someone.
Her motto is “change is inevitable; therefore we must adapt in every way possible.”