Tara Merida , LPC

Tara Merida is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with 17 years of experience in the mental health field. As an LPC, she is a licensed professional counselor who provides therapeutic support across a range of challenges. Currently serving as a school counselor, Tara brings a practical focus on helping students, families, and community members navigate difficult transitions and emotional struggles.

Tara has concentrated experience addressing trauma, crisis response, grief, anxiety, anger management, self-care, ADHD, dyslexia, autism, self-regulation, and improving school success. She is a Certified Anger Resolution Therapist and has completed additional training including Skills for Psychological Recovery, Motivational Interviewing, bullying prevention, suicide prevention, Mental Health First Aid, trauma work, grief support, anxiety interventions, and resilience building. These trainings inform a pragmatic and skills-based approach to care.

Her therapeutic style is collaborative, warm, and encouraging, shaped by client-centered principles, cognitive behavioral techniques, narrative perspectives, and solution-focused strategies. Tara emphasizes understanding each person’s unique story and helping them develop tools to notice, accept, and work with strong emotions rather than fight them. She welcomes people seeking support for stress, relationships, parenting, career concerns, neurodiversity, mood disorders, and coping with life changes, and she partners with individuals to create realistic, personalized steps toward greater functioning and well-being.