About Tammy
Tammy Barnum is a licensed mental health counselor with 22 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship strain, grief, and parenting challenges. Tammy focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She aims to create a calm, encouraging space where questions are welcome and progress is measured in real life changes. Her work has taken place in schools, community programs, and mental health clinics across New York.
Background and approach
That range taught her to adapt methods to everyday routines and busy schedules. Tammy draws on client-centered care to listen and follow each person’s priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help with sleep, anger, and overwhelming feelings. Narrative techniques are used to reorganize painful or stuck stories about identity, trauma, or loss. Motivational interviewing helps when people feel stuck or uncertain about change.
Tammy believes people already have strengths and capacities to build on. Sessions focus on small, manageable steps that fit a person’s life. She encourages skill practice between appointments and checks progress regularly.
People who reach out can expect a warm, straightforward approach. Tammy listens first, then partners on goals and a plan. The emphasis is on usable tools, steady support, and clearer direction for the challenges you brought to therapy.
Approaches that fit your life online
Tammy commonly uses client-centered therapy to start by listening and shaping sessions around what matters most to the person. This approach helps people set their own priorities and feel heard before moving to concrete work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to change how someone feels. It is practical and helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and ADHD-related patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Tammy works together with each person to decide which methods make sense based on their goals, pace, and preferences. That collaborative planning can change over time as needs shift or new challenges appear.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls are good when visual cues and a fuller conversation matter. Phone sessions can fit a commute or a shorter time window. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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