Tara Lumpkin, PhD, is a medical and environmental anthropologist. She has been employed in international aid work and is president of the non-profit Perception, which promotes perceptual, cultural and biological diversity through its global projects.

She is also a certified Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner using a naturalistic approach to healing based upon a process that helps clients access their animal instincts and inner-natures.

Tara has a master's degree in Creative Writing, formerly worked as an environmental journalist, and continues to write poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She has won a Maryland State Arts Council grant for her fiction and has published widely. Currently, she is at work on a creative non-fiction book about healing.

In addition, she offers animal communication sessions for clients who wish to communicate with their pets or wild animals.

And she offers tarot readings that use the card layout as a form of divination that allows both Tara and the client to work together to interpret the probable future.