About Tammy
Tammy Curtis is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She brings 11 years of experience and a calm, practical approach to sessions. Tammy aims to help people build skills that make daily life easier and more manageable.
She uses straightforward methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and make small changes in behavior. Narrative ideas help people reframe difficult stories about themselves so they feel less stuck.
Background and approach
Tammy also draws on solution-focused strategies to set short-term goals and track progress one step at a time. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. Tammy listens first, then offers tools a person can try between meetings.
She emphasizes concrete skills for managing anxiety, coping with life changes, and handling strong emotions like anger or grief. Her background includes 11 years working with concerns such as trauma and abuse, parenting stress, family conflict, addictions, and caregiver burnout. Tammy also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and the effects of chronic illness.
Tammy prefers plain language and practical plans. She helps people set realistic steps, practice new skills, and notice small improvements. This approach is aimed at bringing steadier days and clearer choices for people facing anxiety and related struggles.
How Tammy’s Approaches Work Online
CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. It is practical and often involves homework like tracking thoughts or trying new actions between sessions.Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons for change and resolve mixed feelings about taking steps forward. This approach suits concerns like addiction, career shifts, or taking on new routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tammy will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds. The process is practical and tuned to what the person wants to achieve.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging for scheduling flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls can fit a busy day or low bandwidth, and messaging or live chat work well for brief check-ins, developing skills over time, and keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into real life while focusing on skill-building and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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