Community Highlights: Meet Tara Hill of To Attain Healing

Today we’d like to introduce you to Tara Hill. 

Hi Tara, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
How I started was because GOD had a purpose for my life and a path that I couldn’t see. To Attain Healing started with a personal healing journey for myself to address trauma and toxicity in my life by utilizing the components of Growth* Accountability* Self-Love* Healing* Balance* Wholeness* Love* Purpose* Emotional Stability* Inner Peace* Awareness* Transparency* Therapy* and it turned into a healing journey for the community. I was To Attain Healing’s first client. 

I teach us to release the things that fester in us because they break our spirits in ways we don’t know or see. Our normalized behaviors begin to look normal to people around us because we are around people who are just like us. When our hearts are blocked, we cannot hear, we cannot see, and we cannot understand things in a healthy way. My Blocked heart started as a child when I was raised in a toxic stressful environment, a single-mother household, and had a son at 19. I experienced domestic violence, homelessness, and other traumatizing events that could have changed my whole path and life. Instead, strength allowed me to fight through and walk in my purpose by seeing the damage that was internal. I became transparent with the world about my life and started a spiritual journey. 

To Attain Healing was established in 2014. 

Research has found that up to 70% of people experience positive psychological growth from difficult times, such as a deeper sense of self and purpose, a greater appreciation for life and loved ones, and an increased capacity for altruism, empathy, and desire to act for the greater good. 

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
“Nothing worth having comes easy!” Including our lives. With that being said it has not been a smooth ride. However, I feel as if every trial and tribulation, obstacle, and challenge were specific to fit my need and purpose. I no longer look at things that happened or happens in my life as negative. Everything we encounter in life rather good or bad is meant to shape us and grow us. I have been through a lot of things in my life I even battled depression during those times. It was necessary for me to come to a place of healing so that I could do more than survive. 

Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Tara Hill, MMFT, Founder and CEO Tara Hill is a Master Degreed Marriage and Family Therapist (MMFT) who specializes in trauma-informed care and is currently seeking licensure in Ohio to become a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). Tara is an advocate, Philanthropist, and founder of To Attain Healing LLC. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Cleveland State University and her Master’s in counseling (with emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy) from Liberty University. Tara currently attends Northcentral University for their clinical program and to pursue her Licensure and Doctorate in MFT. 

Tara has over 15 years of experience as a Qualified Mental/Behavioral Health Professional. Tara worked in Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) as a paraprofessional for Emotionally Disturbed (ED) students. Worked as a Social Worker at Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services (CCDCFS), community agencies as a Therapeutic Behavior Specialist, and in hospitals/private settings as a Psychiatric Patient Sitter. These experiences inspired Tara to open a healing-focused agency that creates a holistic approach. 

The primary mission of To Attain Healing is to facilitate self-healing at its deepest core. It promotes wholeness, wellness, and love from the inside/out by focusing on helping individuals with the personal experience of transcendence of suffering. People often associate healing with a “cure” but it’s broader than that. To Attain Healing LLC. (Spiritually promotes more healthier individuals and families through healing), the long-term goal is to create resources to help others acknowledge trauma and heal thyself while defining purpose. The goal is to truly heal and not mask, to identify, describe, explain, and control the behavior and mental processes of oneself. 

Tara Hill is committed to the wellness of individuals, families, and the community through advocacy, therapeutic approaches, treatment, trauma-informed care, intervention, crisis analysis, and remedies. She believes that her experience, expertise, and ability in the area of Mental/Behavioral health, as well as family services, will help individuals overcome barriers and challenges in toxic stress environments and learn to thrive from traumatic experiences by giving them the support needed. To Attain Healing strives to turn our client’s darkness into light! 

Where do you see things going in the next 5-10 years?
I have huge plans for my agency. I see To Attain Healing Mental/ Behavioral Health Center being a household staple for the community in more cities than Cleveland. I want to eventually provide services to individuals Internationally. I want individuals to understand that healing is a process that is forever going. To Attain Healing was created to allow individuals to make a commitment to grow and change by changing the narrative in their minds of being “stuck.” 

The circular “To Attain Healing” logo represents the mind: In order to heal you must change the narrative in your mind, so that it radiates to your core. 

Contact Info:

• Website: tahsohio.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mstah2/?hl=en
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tara.hill.1650
• Other: https://www.wkyc.com/video/entertainment/television/its-about-you/tara-hill-addressing-your-mental-health/95-f542df27-a1c9-4ce5-b262-ee0a1c01d755