About Tammy
Tammy Garbarino is a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with ten years of clinical experience. She favors talking things through to help people sort out decisions, set goals, and cope with life’s harder moments. Tammy aims to bring calm and practical direction to people facing stress, anxiety, grief, or depression.
She uses a client-centered approach that focuses on each person’s experience and priorities. Sessions center on listening, clarifying what matters most, and building on strengths people already have.
Background and approach
The work often starts with clearer self-awareness and small, realistic steps toward change. Tammy has worked with concerns around relationships, parenting, family issues, and intimacy-related struggles. She also helps people address body image, eating and food-related issues, caregiver stress, and feelings of isolation or emptiness.
Career questions, commitment issues, and challenges after divorce or separation are also within her focus. In sessions she emphasizes acceptance, purpose, and personal growth. Conversations aim to be direct and supportive, with time spent on practical strategies and realistic goal-setting.
Tammy hopes therapy will encourage and comfort people as they move forward. She provides services in English and practices in California. Her LMFT credential reflects state licensure as a marriage and family therapist.
Client-Centered Care Online: Active Listening and Practical Steps
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and follows the client’s lead to discover what matters most. This approach helps with anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, and life transitions by building clearer self-understanding and choosing next steps together.Sessions typically start with open conversation about goals and what feels most pressing. Tammy helps people name priorities, try small changes, and track what works. She treats the choice of methods as a collaborative process and adjusts based on needs, goals, and what the client prefers.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper connection. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support, or when written reflection feels helpful. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or busy days and let clients pick the format that best fits their routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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