About Tamara
Tamara Nixon is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Massachusetts who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and low self-esteem. She brings ten years of experience to the work and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Tamara speaks English and sees clients across state lines, including international clients when appropriate.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She listens first to understand what matters to each person. Then she works with them to set clear, achievable goals and uses short-term strategies to reduce symptoms and build coping skills.
Background and approach
Tamara draws on client-centered methods that keep the person's priorities at the center. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and change them through practice. Mindfulness tools and elements of dialectical behavior therapy are added when people need help managing strong emotions or improving focus.
Over the years she has supported people with depression, panic or social anxiety, ADHD-related struggles, trauma and sleep problems. She also works with issues tied to identity, relationships, parenting, and career stress. Her approach emphasizes strengths and small, steady changes that fit each person's life.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Tamara uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and priorities, offering space to talk and be heard while the therapist follows the client's lead. It helps when someone needs a supportive, nonjudgmental place to sort out feelings and decide next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, panic, mood difficulties, and habits that get in the way of daily life.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for tolerating distress, regulating intense emotions, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. These tools are helpful when emotions feel overwhelming or impulsivity causes problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tamara collaborates with each person to try methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts techniques over time and checks in regularly to see what is helping.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people reflect in writing and fit support into busy days. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to match to daily routines and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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