About Me

Tara Rullo, LCSW, is the founder and clinical director of Middle Way Psychotherapy in Brooklyn Heights, NY. With over twenty years of clinical experience, Tara specializes in trauma-focused therapy for individuals and couples, with EMDR as a central modality in her practice.
Tara works with adults navigating the lasting effects of developmental trauma, attachment wounds, relationship betrayal, and complex PTSD. She brings a warm, body-centered approach to trauma treatment, helping clients process distressing experiences that have remained stuck — often long after talk therapy alone has reached its limits. EMDR provides the structured framework for this deep processing work, and Tara integrates it with somatic awareness, mindfulness, and parts-based perspectives to support lasting healing.
In her couples work, Tara applies EMDR principles alongside Gottman Method Couples Therapy to address the relational impact of trauma — including infidelity, emotional disconnection, and attachment ruptures. She helps couples move beyond cycles of conflict and reactivity by doing the deeper work of processing what each partner carries individually, and how those histories show up in the relationship.
Tara is also trained in CBT, DBT, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), and Focusing, and holds certification as a Kundalini yoga teacher. These tools complement her trauma work by supporting nervous system regulation, emotional awareness, and embodied healing.
Tara believes every person has the capacity to heal — and that lasting change becomes possible when the nervous system, not just the mind, feels safe enough to do so.