Welcome to the Starlit Woods of
Barghamadi Counseling
✨Clarity 🌠 Purpose 🌕 Discernment🌛 ✨Courage 💛 Discipline ✨
🌕 Curiosity🕯️
"Delve into the path that fulfills your heart and soul—guided by starlight and the wisdom of the ancients, poets, mystics, and philosophers"
Tara Barghamadi
Areas of Exploration
Existential and philosophical exploration.
Heart & Soul-centered reflection.
Life transitions and threshold moments.
Courage, hope, and intentional living.
Slowness, seasons, and cyclical rhythms.
Relationships, intimacy, and inner dynamics.
Values-led decision making and meaning-making.
Creative work and Entrepreneurship.
Cultural practices for insight and self-exploration
My Philosophy
My work is rooted in the Existential understanding that your life is yours to shape—that while no one chooses their starting point, you are invited into an active relationship with your choices, your values, and the direction you move.
Meaning is shaped through courageous engagement—through choosing to participate in your life rather than standing at a distance from it.
In this way, the life you live becomes your personal philosophy—an evolving expression of what you value, what you hope for, and how you choose to meet the world.
"Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you." -Jean Paul Sartre
Often we can get stuck in blaming forces that are out of our control. Our past cannot be changed, and yet it does not have to be a life sentence. When we let go of what is not in our power, we can focus on our own role in our lives.
We live most authentically when we pause to reflect, revisit our vision, intentionally decide who we want to become, and act on it with discipline.
As the wisdom goes:"An hour of contemplation is greater than a year of worship." - Imam Ali
Intentional living is the prerequisite to a life well-lived. Without intention, without a guiding north star, we drift aimlessly. When we set our sights on what matters most—our values, our purpose—we navigate life with direction and clarity.
All worthy endeavors carry difficulty, we must bake this into our expectation. Archery provides an allegory to this: before the arrow is released, it is held in tension, trembling. Growth feels the same: a necessary darkness before momentum.
Mystics have long called this, "The Dark Night of the Soul"
The real question is not whether it will be hard, but how we move through it—and, most importantly, why.
"She who has a why can endure almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Learning your 'why' has its genesis in uncovering 'who' you are.
In a world full of distractions, noise, and fleeting pleasures, it is essential to reorient to your why, to your values & goals, to the life you’re striving to create. To who you want to become.
Ask yourself honestly:
Who am I in this season of my life? Who do I want to become?
Where am I holding myself back? What do I fear?
What do I want to learn in this life? What makes me feel alive?
Am I moving toward my highest self? Have I fallen astray?
Self-understanding is the antidote to fear. When we know ourselves, when we trust our ability to learn, adapt, and grow, the unknown loses its power.
Fear will exist, but courage is not the absence of fear—it is moving forward despite it. As the adage goes,
"The life you want is on the other side of Fear"
Being clear about who we are, moving with courage, and letting go of control means embracing life as a learning journey shaped by openness and hope. Hope is not based on evidence; it is a posture you practice.
A reminder that you are inherently worthy exactly as you are. The work you do is not about becoming “enough”; it is about deepening, refining, and expanding into your fullest potential.
Growth comes when we are open—open to guidance, open to reflection, open to being seen. Open to being vulnerable.
Feedback, when received without defensiveness, is a catalyst for transformation. Iron sharpens iron: to be challenged and witnessed fully is the path to the most profound growth.
This is the invitation of this work: to live consciously, courageously, and with a heart aligned to your own starlight.
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Let’s Connect
I would love to guide you to the path that fulfills your heart and soul
Hafiz Poems:
Hafiz was a Persian Poet, Mystic, an Ancestor of mine
" I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being" 🕯️
🌞 “Even After All this time,
The Sun never says to the Earth,"You owe me."
Look What happens With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.” 🌞
Rumi Poems:
Rumi was a Poet & Mystic; One of my Persian Ancestors.
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”- رومی (Rumi)
"There is a voice that doesnt use words- Listen"
"We are the Stars wrapped in Skin, The Light you Seek has always been Within"
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” رومی (Rumi)
"Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you" 🕯️
"You are the Universe Experiencing itself in Ecstatic Motion" 🔮
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, There is a field. I'll meet you there"
"Where there is Ruin there is Hope for a Treasure"
✨ "I want to start sessions, but I still have some questions"✨
That’s a very natural place to be. It’s wise to get clarity before moving forward.
Feel free to email me at tara@tarabarghamadi.com and we can set up a free 15-minute phone consultation—a low-pressure space to ask questions, talk through logistics, explore the philosophies I integrate, and see whether working together feels like a good fit. It’s a chance to ask questions, get a feel for my approach, and see whether this work feels aligned for you.
"What's meant for you will reach you even if it's beneath two mountains, and what isn't meant for you won't reach you even if it's between your two lips" - Imam Al-Ghazali, Scholar
The Guest House
by Rumi (رومی)
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
This is a Supervised Private Practice
It is owned and/or managed by a master’s level, non-independent licensee under Board-approved clinical supervision pursuant to A.A.C. R4-6-211.
This is a supervised private practice. It is owned and/or managed by a master’s level, non-independent licensee under Board-approved clinical supervision pursuant to A.A.C. R4-6-211.
The Board-approved clinical supervisor of this practice is:
Name: Kristen Burnsmith
Phone Number: 623-337-0946
Email: counselingbykristen@gmail.com
