About Tammy
Tammy Barnum is a licensed mental health counselor with 22 years of experience. She works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, grief, relationship strain, or changes in their life. Tammy focuses on helping individuals feel supported and understood while they learn new ways to cope.
She uses straight talk and practical tools so clients can try things between sessions. Tammy draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person's pace and priorities.
Background and approach
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behavior patterns. Tammy has worked in schools, community programs, and mental health clinics across New York. That variety shaped a flexible approach to common problems like sleep troubles, parenting stress, addictions, and identity concerns.
Her work also addresses trauma, attachment issues, and family of origin difficulties. Sessions focus on clear goals and steps people can take right away. Tammy encourages people to notice small changes and build on them.
She believes most people have the strengths to move toward better functioning when they get some steady support. People who choose her often want a warm, steady presence and methods they can use at home. Tammy combines narrative techniques to help clients reframe their stories with motivational interviewing when people need help finding the drive to change.
Her practice is based in New York and services are provided in English.
How Tammy Uses Talk Therapy Online
Client-Centered Therapy means Tammy follows each person's pace and priorities. She listens closely and helps people name what matters most, which suits worries about anxiety, relationships, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot thought patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. She helps clients test new ways of thinking and try small behavior changes between sessions to see what helps in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tammy will discuss options and collaborate on a plan that fits the client's goals, energy, and preferences. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions for issues like trauma, sleep problems, or parenting stress.
Online formats allow flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions or live chat can fit a short break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, homework prompts, and ongoing encouragement between meetings.
These options make it easier to keep a steady therapy routine while balancing everyday demands, and they let clients try different formats to see what works best for their needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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