About Tami
Tami Brugman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 24 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, depression, ADHD, grief, and many other life challenges. She combines practical tools with a calm, collaborative approach so people can take clear steps forward.
Tami aims to make therapy feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed. She works from a client-centered stance, meeting each person where they are and adapting her approach to what the situation needs.
Background and approach
She uses methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness practices, hypnotherapy, and solution-focused ideas. That mix lets her address thoughts, behaviors, and moment-to-moment awareness in ways that fit the person. Tami also pays attention to how the body and mind interact.
She is pursuing a PhD in Applied Psychophysiology to deepen that understanding and bring it into clinical work. Over two decades in community mental health and independent practice have given her experience with both everyday stressors and complex diagnoses.
In sessions she offers concrete strategies - breathing and mindfulness exercises, cognitive reframes, behavioral experiments, or focused hypnotherapy - chosen to match the client’s goals. Progress tends to come from repeated small steps rather than grand gestures. She sees caregiving strain, chronic illness, cancer-related concerns, family-of-origin issues, codependency, and trauma among her focus areas.
Tami encourages collaboration so people know what to expect and can shape the work to suit their life and priorities.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present; it can help people facing anxiety, life transitions, and persistent worry. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to name and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce anxious reactions and improve sleep, mood, and daily functioning. Mindfulness Therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness, often helping with stress, chronic illness coping, and emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then suggest methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people use visual cues and face-to-face conversation, phone sessions reduce bandwidth needs and can be a quicker check-in, live chat offers short exchanges during busy days, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around caregiving, work, or medical appointments while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Texas, California
- Languages
- English
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