About Tammy
Tammy Abel is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Kentucky with 27 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, motivation, self-esteem, and concentration. Tammy speaks plain language in sessions and aims to make the first steps into therapy feel doable for those who are nervous about starting.
Tammy centers sessions on each person’s story and strengths. She treats anxiety and stress by helping clients build routines, practical coping skills, and clearer thinking.
Background and approach
Conversations are aimed at short-term relief and longer-term ways to handle life changes. She brings nearly three decades of clinical work to each meeting and draws on techniques that are evidence-based. Tammy works with people facing parenting strain, ADHD-related challenges, relationship communication problems, and issues linked to adoption, abandonment, or family of origin concerns.
Sessions may address caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome-related needs, and personality or attachment concerns. Tammy also supports people dealing with codependency, control issues, emptiness, divorce or separation, and blended family dynamics. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward.
Tammy helps clients set practical goals, learn new ways to cope, and track progress between sessions. She encourages small, steady steps rather than big leaps.
How Tammy Uses Evidence-Based Techniques Online
Tammy draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills you can use day to day. One approach emphasizes building practical coping strategies for anxiety and stress, such as breathing exercises, planning routines, and breaking problems into manageable steps. This helps when worries feel overwhelming and you need immediate tools to calm down.Another common focus is attention and organization supports for people with ADHD-related challenges, which can include structured planning, short-term goal setting, and ways to improve concentration. These methods aim to reduce frustration and improve daily functioning. Tammy also uses approaches that strengthen self-esteem and communication skills to help with relationship strain and family of origin issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Tammy will collaborate with each person to choose methods based on their goals, needs, and preferences. She views therapy as a team effort and adjusts techniques over time to fit what is most helpful.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video works well for in-depth conversations and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can fit a shorter break at work or require less bandwidth, and live chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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