About Dr. Tara McCormick

Licensed in California and Texas, Dr. Tara McCormick is a clinical psychologist, Dr. Tara McCormick is a clinical psychologist who specializes in integrative health psychology. She is authentic, insightful, and emphasizes the importance of creating a safe, nonjudgmental, and compassionate therapeutic space to reflect and process emotions. At the Psykhe Center for Integrative Health, Dr. McCormick uses evidence-based practice and neuroscience to guide her therapy sessions. Her therapeutic style combines holistic, humanistic, psychodynamic, internal family systems (integrative somatic parts work), and attachment-based theories to gain insight while implementing mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral strategies to help with symptom management and behavioral change. Through her integrative and holistic approach, she believes psychological well-being derive from addressing emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual facets of the human experience.

She has worked in outpatient and inpatient residential psychiatric and dual-diagnosis multidisciplinary settings. She has experience working with individuals across the lifespan with diverse backgrounds. She has received rigorous training at some of California’s most reputable healthcare institutions. She completed her internship at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, Department of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, where she specialized in providing individual therapy and treatment to individuals with anxiety, phobias, depression, relational issues, and chronic, psycho-somatic health issues. She provides psychological and psycho-diagnostic assessments for ADHD, learning difficulties, intelligence, and mood issues to children, adolescents, adults, and older adults.  Additionally, Dr. McCormick served our veteran population at the VA Department of Mental Health in Loma Linda for her postdoctoral fellowship by offering psycho-educational groups in health promotion and disease prevention, individual therapy, and integrated behavioral medicine interventions for stress management, weight management, neurofeedback, biofeedback, and insomnia.

Dr. McCormick holds a M.A. and Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology graduating with honors for dissertation excellence, a M.A. from Pepperdine University (Graduate School of Education and Psychology) graduating with honors, and a B.S. in biopsychology from University of California Santa Barbara. She specializes in integrative, holistic, and health psychology, and the mind-body-spirit relationship. She is a Southern California native and regularly spends time in nature by gardening, going to the beach, camping, hiking, and traveling to national parks.