About Tammy
Dr. Tammy Occhipinti is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports those coping with addictions, grief, relationship struggles, and changes that feel overwhelming.
Her approach focuses on practical steps people can use right away. She draws on 22 years of clinical experience to tailor conversations and plans to each person. Sessions are guided by the client’s goals and pace.
She aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people can talk frankly about what’s hard.
Background and approach
Dr. Occhipinti uses a mix of methods to address thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Techniques include acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, cognitive-behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thinking, and client-centered listening to support self-directed change.
Dialectical skills and existential questions are brought in when they fit the problem. Practical life areas she often covers include sleep problems, parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, and coping with chronic illness or pain. She also works with people facing family-of-origin issues, blended family challenges, and the aftermath of separation or loss.
Her sessions can help someone build daily coping skills, set boundaries, improve communication, and find meaning after difficult events. She emphasizes collaboration and clear, achievable steps so progress feels manageable. People who want steady, experienced guidance tend to respond well to her style.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, grief, and when someone wants clearer life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, or sleep trouble. It provides concrete tools and short exercises people can use between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, day-to-day needs, and what feels most useful. Sessions evolve over time so techniques are adjusted based on progress and preference.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and teaching new skills. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Messaging and live chat allow brief check-ins, real-time coaching, or steady support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or health challenges and to keep momentum on coping skills and goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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