About Tamara
Tamara Christman is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 22 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Tamara takes a calm, practical approach and helps clients find steps they can use right away.
She focuses on everyday struggles like workplace stress, relationship issues, body image concerns, and grief. Tamara also supports people coping with trauma, compassion fatigue, and career shifts. She listens closely to what matters to each person and shapes sessions around those goals.
Background and approach
In sessions she blends straightforward skills and deeper exploration. Clients learn coping tools from approaches like cognitive behavioral methods and acceptance strategies. Tamara also pays attention to attachment patterns that can affect relationships and intimacy.
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. She helps people build self-understanding and stronger emotional responses. Practical homework and short-term skills often pair with longer conversations about values and meaning.
Tamara offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Sessions are offered in English and are based in Virginia. To begin, a short matching questionnaire guides the scheduling process and connection to a therapist.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them. It focuses on values and small, steady steps toward what matters, which can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, changing unhelpful thinking patterns, and improving mood through concrete exercises and practice between sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape reactions today. This work can be useful for intimacy-related worries, communication problems, and healing from abandonment or attachment injuries.
Deciding which approach to use is a team process. Tamara will work collaboratively to pick methods that match a person's goals, needs, and comfort level. That might mean trying short-term skills first or combining approaches over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on practical steps and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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