Tarsha Washington, LPC

Tarsha Washington is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), a state credential that authorizes her to provide professional counseling. She has been actively offering therapy services since 2015 and brings collaborative experience across more than 18 years in varied social services roles working with adults, families, and children.

Tarsha centers her work on empowering clients to reach their goals by creating a person-centered environment where self-determination is encouraged and affirmed. She engages with warmth, respect, and positive regard, seeking to understand each person’s strengths and barriers so they can take realistic steps toward improved functioning at home, at school, at work, and in the community.

Her foundation in social work began with an undergraduate degree in Social Work from Herbert Lehman College in the Bronx, New York, where she was introduced to the relationship principles of Felix Biestek. Those principles shape her practice and include recognition of each person’s individuality; support for the purposeful expression of feelings; sensitivity through controlled emotional involvement; acceptance of strengths and limitations; a nonjudgmental approach; encouragement of self-determination; and respect for personal nature of sessions, with disclosure only when a client signs a release, when a court orders records, or when there is danger to the client or others.

Tarsha’s approach is purposeful and client-focused, aimed at identifying and addressing disruptions that impair social functioning while helping clients build coping skills and resilience.