About Tammy
Tammy Russell is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and on problems that get in the way of daily life. Tammy aims to create a steady, respectful space where clients can be heard and understood.
She works directly with concerns such as addictions, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, and panic attacks. Tammy also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, anger, and career stress.
Background and approach
Her practice includes attention to self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and challenges tied to life changes. Tammy uses methods that center the person and build practical skills. She draws on client-centered approaches alongside cognitive behavioral tools and elements of dialectical behavior therapy.
Motivational interviewing and emotionally-focused techniques are used when they fit the client's goals. Sessions are shaped around what each person needs. Tammy listens first, then helps set small, doable steps toward change.
She encourages clear goals and regular check-ins so progress is visible and adjustable. People who find her approach a good fit are often looking for straightforward guidance, skill-building, and steady support during difficult transitions. Tammy offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so therapy can fit into busy lives.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what is said, and helps people clarify what they want to change. This approach is useful for anyone seeking empathetic support and clearer direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. It often includes simple exercises to reduce anxiety, manage panic, and work through compulsive or repetitive thinking patterns. CBT is practical and action-oriented, which adapts well to remote sessions.
Dialetical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal interactions. It can be helpful for strong mood swings, impulsivity, or chronic stress. Skills-based work like this can be taught and practiced through video, phone, or messaging formats.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That planning happens together over the first sessions and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy makes consistent contact easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or people prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, quick skill reminders, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options help therapy fit into a busy schedule and varied life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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