TARA LOMBARDO
“I chose to become a psychotherapist because I wanted to provide support and guidance to my community in navigating all the challenges that walking through the world as an LGBTQ individual entails,” says Tara Lombardo, LMHC. “I feel that so much emphasis is based on coming out and how important it is psychologically to do so, but I also am deeply interested in helping people with all that comes after this critical phase of life.” Lombardo is the associate director, staff therapist, and clinical supervisor at the Institute for Human Identity Therapy Center, which has provided counseling to the queer community for over 40 years. (Its founder was also part of a team that helped get homosexuality taken out of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-a major gay rights victory in the 1970s.) Lombardo, who has a private practice in Manhattan, received her M.A. in mental health counseling from Brooklyn College, an M.A. in psychology from New York University and a B.S. in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her therapy focuses on tackling topics “from a psychodynamic and existential perspective. … Therapy proves to be a great place to not only uncover the parts of ourselves which have gone unseen, but to also construct how we´d like to show up in this world.” -GH
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