About Tammy
Tammy Foster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She brings 22 years of experience to sessions and works with issues such as addictions, relationship problems, parenting strain, grief, and career concerns. Her tone is warm and practical, and she aims to help clients find clearer steps forward.
Tammy uses a mix of approaches in session. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape current reactions.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered methods to keep conversations focused on the person in front of her. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. In early parts of her career Tammy served as an addiction specialist and interventionist and ran administrative work at an adolescent treatment center in Northern California.
That background informs how she supports people dealing with substance-related concerns and codependency. Her experience includes helping people facing trauma, abuse, bipolar challenges, and intimacy or commitment worries. Her style is interactive and strength-focused.
Sessions tend to be conversational and goal-directed, with practical skills and reflection. Tammy combines motivational techniques, elements of dialectical behavior therapy, and emotionally-focused ideas when useful to address emotion regulation and relationship patterns. People come to her seeking relief from anxiety, help with parenting decisions, or tools to manage anger and grief.
Her work often blends direct skill practice with exploration of attachment patterns and life choices. Tammy aims to help clients move from feeling stuck to taking concrete next steps.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. In online sessions this work helps identify patterns that affect intimacy, trust, and core fears. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience without judgment. Online meetings can reproduce that supportive, person-focused conversation so clients feel heard while they work through stress and self-esteem concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. It fits well with remote work because homework, thought records, and behavioral experiments can be assigned between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with clients to match methods to their goals, needs, and daily routines. That might mean combining attachment ideas with CBT skills or using emotionally-focused tools for relationship concerns. Tammy helps set clear goals and checks in about what feels most useful as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer flexibility through multiple formats. Video calls let people read facial cues and practice interaction work. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, skill prompts, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to keep momentum while balancing family, work, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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