- Warm interactive style
- Practical skills focus
- Attachment informed care
About Tammy
Tammy Foster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, and codependency. She brings 22 years of experience and a direct, warm style that many people find easy to talk with. Tammy works with adults on issues like depression, grief, trauma, parenting strain, career transitions, and ADHD-related concerns.
Her background includes work as an addiction specialist and interventionist, and time running an adolescent treatment program in Northern California. That early work shaped how she supports people through substance use and sex-related addictions, and through major life changes. Over two decades she has supported people dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment, and blended family challenges.
Tammy blends several approaches rather than using only one method. She centers sessions on the person, listens for strengths, and adds tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when helpful. She also uses attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas to address intimacy and relationship patterns.
Her sessions tend to be interactive and coaching-oriented. She helps people set goals, practice new skills, and try different ways of handling conflict or intense feelings. Tammy aims to help clients find more calm, clearer boundaries, and healthier connections.
People who choose her often want practical steps and encouragement while they work through loss, family stress, or the fallout of addiction. She frames therapy as a step-by-step process toward greater balance and more hopeful daily living.
How Tammy's Approaches Fit into Online Therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on the patterns people form in close relationships. It looks at how people connect, respond to rejection or closeness, and how old relationship habits show up now. This approach can help with intimacy problems, abandonment issues, and codependency concerns.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. It is practical and skill-based, and it often helps with anxiety, depression, and managing strong emotions. Emotionally-focused ideas concentrate on feelings in relationships and help people understand and shift interaction patterns that cause pain.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Tammy will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can still fit into busy lives by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, and making it easier to schedule sessions around work or family demands. Licensed professionals can use these formats to continue CBT skill practice, explore attachment patterns, and coach clients through behavior changes without requiring an office visit.
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Experience
22+ years
Credentials
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Tammy address?
Tammy supports people with stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, relationship struggles, self-esteem problems, grief, trauma, parenting strain, codependency, and related issues.
What is Tammy's therapeutic style?
She uses a warm, interactive, person-centered style that mixes coaching and counseling. Sessions focus on strengths, goal-setting, and practical skills work.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 22 years of experience, including several years as an addiction specialist and as an administrator of an adolescent treatment program.
What credentials and location apply to this therapist?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - practicing in California.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How is cost handled for therapy?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Tammy?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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